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Esselte Meto AS40 Thermal Printer

Esselte Meto AS40 high-volume workhorse thermal printer is in a class of its own. Its steel casing and heavy-duty design make it the perfect printer for the industrial environment. The Esselte Meto AS40 prints at 300dpi and can be equipped with a rewinder, cutter and cutter/stacker and maintain a print speed of 250mm per second (10 ips). The Esselte Meto AS40 features a detachable LCD display/control panel for easy accessibility. A unique ribbon tension adjustment ensures optimum performance and print for garment tags, retail ticketing, shipping, packaging and prime labels for manufacturing. If durability, speed, flexible connectivity and uncompromised image quality are your top priority, then the AS40 is the right choice. It is powered by MPDL3, Meto's printer driver language and is compatible with Laser Jet PCL 5e, the world's most popular printer language. This offers unparalleled flexibility regardless of the operating system you use (DOS, Windows, Windows 95, UNIX, IBM, etc.). Click here if you want to download the most current printer drivers for MPDL3.

Features

High speed, 300dpi laser quality printing

Connects via Serial, Parallel, ISAbus and Twinax/Coax Ports

HP Emulation & Windows Compatibility

Cut tags & labels up to 10 ips (250mm/sec)

Separates tickets into print batches

Stacks & batches up to 2500 cut tickets

Imaging

Technology
Thermal transfer and direct thermal

Resolution
300dpi (11.8 dots/mm)

Image Width
108mm max (4.25")

Image Length
320mm max (11.80") (900 mm max opt with additional DRAM)

Quality Assurance
MAPS Media Application Parameter Set

Print Speed

MAPS Controlled
250mrn/s (10"/sec)

Selectable
50-250mm/s max. in increments of 25mm/s (1"/sec)

Print Media Handling

Media Path
Center justified, equalized pressure

Media Width
48 to 110mm (1.90" - 4.33")

Media Length
12 to 999mm or continuous (0.47" - 19.7")
1500mm optional with additional DRAM (59")

Media Thickness
0.1 to 0.3mm (4 - 12mil)

Supply Format
Rolls or fan-folded pads

Roll Diameter
225mm max (9")

Roll Core
40 or 76mm (1.58" or 3.0")

Ribbon Handling

Ribbon Cassette
95-110mm included (4") 70-90mm, optional (3") 50-65mm, optional (2")

Ribbon Length
350m (72mm outer diameter max)

Ribbon Width Saving
Ribbon can be positioned anywhere across web

Media Sensing

Transmissive Sensor
Gaps between labels

Reflective Sensor
Punched holes, underside black markings, side cuts

Sensor Positioning
User moveable across media web

Ribbon Sensing
End of ribbon, ribbon break

Barcodes

Symbologies
Codabar, Code 128 (subsets A, B and C), Code 39, Code 93, EAN-8, EAN-13, EAN 128 SSCC, EAN/UCC Code 128, EAN/UPC add on 2 & 5, ITF, ITF14, Industrial 2/5, Interleaved 2/5, MaxiCode, PDF417, Postnet A, C and C prime, UPC-A, UPC-E, UPC/EAN ramdom weight, and German Post al Code and Identcode.

Orientation
0, 90, 180, 270

Fonts

Resident Fonts
Nine alpha-numeric fonts from 1.36mm to 16mm (0.054" - 0.63")
OCR-A
11 TrueType (True Doc) fonts, scaleable to any size in increments of 0.083mm (0.003")

Font Expansion
TrueType and Type 1 fonts can be downloaded
Fonts and graphics can be printed in four directions: 0, 90, 180, 270 justified left, centered or right, printed normal, inverse, transparent or XOR
Font caching for high-speed applications

Printable Characters
IBM code table 850 or font specific

Graphics Format
PCX, logos can be stored resident or on PCMCIA card

Software Control

Memory
1MB DRAM, expandable to 3MB
256K non-volatile SRAM

Emulation
Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet Series 4 (PCL5e, excludes HPGL)

Interfaces
RS232C (XON/XOFF & hardware handshake at 300 to 19,200 bps)
IBM PC/XT keyboard
Parallel port, 9-pin SYNC-Port (for external control or synchronization) and PCMCIA slot

Optional Interfaces
Twinax, Coax, LAN (TCP/IP), ISA Bus

Options
Cutter, stacker, external rewinder, ribbon saver, present sensor, off-line interface, full-size keyboard and memory expansion

Operating/Environment Data

Power Supply
110 to 240V, 50/60 Hz, auto-ranging

Dimensions
340 H x 340 W x 200mm D

Weight
15kg

Temp, Humidity
5 to 40C, 25 to 85% non condensing

Listings
CE, EN 60950, UL 1950 FCC Class A

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