Seikosha $249 option adds battery of barcodes to heavy-duty BP-5780
personal data processing printer.

JUNE, 1993 -- Seikosha America Inc. (Mahwah, NJ) announces a new bar-code
upgrade option for its high-speed 18-pin BP-5780 personal data processing
printer. This new option provides twelve standard bar code format: code 2
of 5 matrix, interleaved, 2/5 Identicon, code 39, code 128, code 93,
Codabar, MSI, EAN-8, EAN-13, UPC-A, and UPC-E. The barcode option is
available for new or existing BP-5780 printers for $249 (all prices
suggested US resale at participating resellers; inquiries invited). The
BP-5780 high-speed business printer is $2,200.

The fast, heavy-duty BP-5780 has some surprising credentials. Its
high-speed printing at up to 780 cps (in 15 cpi SSD, or super-speed draft,
mode) combines with its 7-part form handling ability for a potential 70
page per minute yield. Its wealth of advanced features includes a
41-function front panel, plug software control of 40 functions; a special,
jam-preventing label mode; zero tear-off; a menu system with memory and
more.

A tilted push tractor, paper parking, autoloading, twin paper-out sensors
and other paper movement automation emphasize reliability and convenience.
During any pause in printing, an auto-scroll feature rolls the paper ahead
to make every printed character visible, then automatically restores the
initial paper position for flawless formatting. A simple adjustment
assures that characters in adjoining rows maintain a common horizontal
position alignment. An automatic bail control lets printing begin a scant
6 mm (one line at 6 lpi) from the top of a new sheet; this combines with a
short tear-off feature that automatically aligns continuous feed paper
perforations with the top of the tear bar for optimum performance with
tickets and other preprinted forms. It also incorporates a friction feed
for easy handling of cut sheets.

An optional ROM can add seven fonts (Courier, Prestige, Gothic, Script,
Orator, OCR-A and OCR-B) to its built-in Roman and sans-serif selections.

Its available printing attributes include italic, condensed, bold,
double-strike, double-width, superscript, subscript, overscore and
underscore. It emulates Epson FX-1050, IBM ProPrinter III XL, Seikosha
BP-A or Seikosha BP-I printer command responses, offering 95 ASCII
characters plus (depending on emulation) 45-171 international characters
or symbols, and 256 downloadable characters.

It prints at 780 Cps in SSD mode, 520 cps in draft pica mode, 133 cps in
NLQ pica mode. Its line feed speed is 10 inches per second (60 lines per
second at 6 lpi). Its effective throughput in draft pica mode is 170 lines
per minute (about 3 ppm).

The BP-5780 uses patented Seikosha stored energy print technology for both
crisp, high-momentum character formation and quiet operation: less than 55
dBA. Its printhead life is rated 500 million characters, its ribbon at 20
million characters. It measures 24 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 12 inches (WHD), weighs
44 pounds and uses 55 Watts at standby, 270 Watts in self-test mode. There
is both a Centronics parallel and an RS-232C serial interface with a 20K
print buffer.

Available options include a multifont ROM, 64K expansion RAM (print buffer
maximum size 84K; also can store downloaded characters), pull tractor, and
Twinax or Coax interfaces.

Seikosha America Inc., a Seiko Group company, is celebrating its 100th
anniversary in 1992. The company markets a high-quality, high-performance
line of printers for use with personal, portable and networked computers,
and video printers popular in military, medical, industrial and studio
applications. Seikosha printers have historically had one of the highest
reliability rates in the computer industry.

For further information contact Seikosha America Inc., 10 Industrial
Avenue, Mahwah, NJ 07430; 800-338-2609 (in New Jersey: 201-327-7227); fax
201-8189135.

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