Epson Announces Availability of New LQ-570e High-speed Single Impact Printer.Business Editors LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2000 Building on its growing line of award-winning printers, Epson America Inc. today announced that its new EPSON LQ-570e single impact printer is now shipping to retailers nationwide. Designed to meet the rigorous demands of impact printer-based business applications, the LQ-570e delivers the speed and durability necessary to satisfy almost any company's form-intensive printing needs. "This printer is the perfect output `workhorse' for any business that churns out a large number of forms each year such as multipart documents, tickets, purchase orders, mailing labels, packing slips A packing slip, sometimes known as a packaging slip or customer receipt, is a shipping document that accompanies delivery packages, usually inside an attached shipping pouch or inside the package itself. , contracts, invoices and just about any other form of paperwork you can imagine," said John Brunson, product manager, SIDM SIDM self-interacting dark matter (physics) SIDM Serial Impact Dot Matrix Printer SIDM Sprint In-touch Desktop Manager printers, Epson. "We've always designed products to fit our customers' specific needs -- that's why the LQ-570e is reliable, easy to use, delivers excellent quality prints at high speeds and operates at a noise level that won't disturb its users or their customers." The LQ-570e's innovative 24-pin design enables the print head to operate faster than most impact printers -- delivering speeds up to 400 characters per second in high-speed draft mode, with a life expectancy Life Expectancy 1. The age until which a person is expected to live. 2. The remaining number of years an individual is expected to live, based on IRS issued life expectancy tables. rated up to 200 million strokes per wire. Furthermore, the rugged LQ-570e features an unprecedented 10,000 power-on-hours (POH interj. 1. An exclamation expressing contempt or disgust; bah ! ) mean-time-between-failure (MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) The average time a component works without failure. It is the number of failures divided by the hours under observation. MTBF - Mean Time Between Failures ) rating, assuring users that it will be a long time before they even need to think about replacing the unit. Priced at $349 (suggested retail price), the LQ-570e offers exceptional paper handling capabilities, including five-part form printing and multiple loading options. Front, top and cut-sheet feeder inputs enable single sheets of paper, or continuous-fed media, to be loaded with ease. With its font versatility and optional film ribbon cartridge, the printer delivers high-quality, professional text ideal for business correspondence -- up to 360 dpi in Ultra Letter Quality Mode. The LQ-570e supports the latest versions of Windows from 3.1 through Windows 2000 and NT 4.0. The printer also offers simple connectivity to a variety of network systems using coax, twin, serial and optional Ethernet boards. Warranty and Support The EPSON LQ-570e is sold through computer and office superstores nationwide, as well as through value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. . Each carries a two-year Epson Exchange Limited Warranty Limited warranty A warranty with certain conditions and limitations on the parts covered, type of damage covered, and/or time period for which the agreement is good. , enabling customers to receive a replacement printer if a problem cannot be corrected by telephone technical support. They are also supported by the EPSON ConnectionSM, a customer support and technical assistance line. For more information on Epson and its products, call 800/GO-EPSON (1-800-463-7766) or visit Epson's Web site at www.epson.com. About Epson Epson offers an extensive array of award-winning image capture and image output products for the consumer, business and graphic arts graphic arts: see aquatint; drawing; drypoint; engraving; etching; illustration; linoleum block printing; lithography; mezzotint; niello; pastel; poster; silk-screen printing; silhouette; silverpoint; sketch; stencil; woodcut and wood engraving. markets. The company is also a leading supplier of value-added point-of-sale (POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale ) solutions for the retail market. Founded in 1975, Epson America is the U.S. affiliate of Japan-based Seiko Epson Seiko Epson Corporation (セイコーエプソン株式会社 Corp., a global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality technology products that meet customer demands for increased functionality, compactness, systems integration and energy efficiency. Epson America has headquarters in Long Beach, Calif. Note to Editors: Epson is a registered trademark of the Seiko Epson Corp. Epson Connection is a service mark of Epson America Inc. |
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