Overview:

Compuprint 3056/3056N
The Compuprint 3000 family is designed to be the ideal solution in Office and Industrial, logistics environments. Its robustness and reliability provide unmatched performance and flexibility to support a variety of forms and documents printing. A complete range of products ready for any environment including the LAN thanks to the integrated Ethernet board.

Features:

• 24 pins print-head technology
• 136 columns
• 560 cps at 10cpi HSD
• High performance in volume printing
• Ribbon life: 10 MC
• Complete and flexible paper handling (fanfold and cut sheet)
• 1+5 copies capability
• Simple to use
• Interface configurations:
  • Parallel, Serial and USB
  • Parallel, USB, LAN

Specifications:

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Specifications and features
Product Code	PRTN3056N
Printing Technology	24 pin - serial dot matrix printers
Printing resolution	360 x 180 dpi
Printing speed	Mode 12 cpi 10 cpi
	HDS 650 cps 560 cps
	Draft 520 cps 480 cps
	NLQ 288 cps 240 cps
	LQ 144 cps 120 cps
Line Length	136 columns @ 10 cpi
Paper handling	Cut sheet: width from 101 to 420 mm / A5, A4, A3 (H/V) - lenght up to 364 mm
	Continuous form: width from 101 to 406 mm - lenght unlimited
	Paper thickness: 0,065 to 0.52 mm
Paper type	Cut sheet, Continuous paper, Multi-part forms, Envelopes, postcard, adhesive labels
Paper path	Friction feed: rear in top out, front in top out - Tractor feed: rear in top out, front in top out, bottom in top out
Copies	1+5
Special functions	Automatic paper parking, Zero tear-off
Barcodes	UPC/A - EAN8 - EAN13 - UPCA/E - Code 39 - Code 128 - 2/5 Interleaved - Postnet
Character set	ASCII, Italic, CP437, CP850, CP860, CP863, CP865, CP858, CP737 (437G), CP857, CP1250, CP864, CP1098, CP1256
	International Character Set: USA, France, Germany, England, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Japan, Norway, Denmark 2, Spain 2, Latin America, Korea, Legal
Resident font	Draft, Courier, Roman, Sans Serif, Prestige, Script, Orator, Orator-S, OCR-A, OCR-B
Resident Emulations	Epson LQ-ESC/P, OKI, IBM ProPrinter (PPDS)
Interfaces	Centronics, Parallel IEEE 1284 bidirectional - Serial RS232 - USB (Base models)
	Centronics, Parallel IEEE 1284 bidirectional - USB - Ethernet LAN 10/100 BaseT (N models)
	Input buffer up to 128 Kbytes, Automatic interface switching, Plug-in & Play (Windows environment)
Drivers	Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/Win7/Win8/Win10 - Unix - Linux
SW Tool	Network Interface Manager - Internal web page
Reliability	MTBF: 20.000 hours at 25% Duty Cycle
	MPVBF: 24 million lines (except print head)
Print Head Life	400 million strokes/wire
Ribbon life	up to 10 million characters
Noise Level	<55 dBA
Power Supply	Tension: 100-240V, Frequency: 50-60Hz
Power consumption	75 W Max. (printing), 15 W (standby)
Physical Dimensions & Weight	623 (W) x 395 (D) x 173 (H) mm - 13 Kg