Additional Supplies And Accessories; Printer Location - Epson FX Series User Manual

Additional Supplies and Accessories

The following items may be purchased separately from your Epson
dealer:
Printer cable or interface kit. Each computer system has its own way
of connecting to a printer. Some computers need a cable only, others
require both a cable and board. The FX printers use the Centronics
standard parallel interface scheme described in Appendix K. If your
computer expects to communicate through a serial rather than
through a parallel interface, you must purchase a serial board for your
FX. Your Epson dealer stocks a variety of FX interface boards as well
as cables.
Printer paper. FX printers are designed to accommodate several types
and sizes of paper. Both printers include tractors so that you can use
continuous-feed paper with pin-feed holes and friction mechanisms so
that you can use paper without these holes.
Ribbon cartridge replacement. The expected life of a cartridge is three
million characters (roughly 1,000 pages of text).
Print head replacement. The expected life of a print head is one hun-
dred million characters (over 30,000 pages of text).
Roll paper holder. For the FX-80, you may purchase an optional roll-
paper holder.

Printer Location

Naturally, your printer must sit somewhere near the computer (the
length of the cable is the limiting factor), but there are other consider-
ations in finding a choice location for your computer/printer setup.
For instance, you may want to find an electrical outlet that is not
controlled by a switch-since a switch may be accidentally shut off
while you have valuable information stored in memory Be sure the
outlet is grounded (do not use an adapter plug). To minimize power
fluctuations, avoid using an outlet on the same circuit breaker with
large electrical machines or appliances. Finally, for continuous-feed
operations you must allow enough room for the paper to flow freely,
as in Figure 1-3.
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