Physical Characteristics

Case
· High strength solvent resistant
   Xenoy TM plastic
Size
· 176 x 176 x 68mm (6.9 x 6.9 x 
  2.7 inches)
Weight
· 1.6 kg (3.5 lbs) including 
  battery & paper roll
User Environment
· Operating Temperature -20°C to 
  +55°C (-4° F to +131°F)
· Storage Temperature -25°C to 
  +70°C (-13°F to + 158°F)
· Electrostatic Immunity 16kV
· Unaffected by humidity
· Can withstand a 1 meter (3 
  feet) drop onto concrete
· FCC Class A approved
· CE Class A approved to EMC 
  Directive 89/336/EEC
· Water and dust resistant to 
  IP33

Performance Characteristics

Print Technology
· Stationary 100 mm
  high-resolution thermal dot 
  print head
· Resolution: 6 dots per millimeter 
  (150 dots per inch)
· Print Head Life: Typically 50 
  million burns per dot
· 50 km of Radix-approved paper

Printer Options Available
Printer range consists of:
· FP40+ with industrial 
  connectors
· FP40+ with industrial 
  connectors and 5V out
· FP40D+ with D type connector
· FP40D+ with D type connector 
  and 5V out





Print Speed
· 240 lines of standard text per 
  minute at temperatures of -5°C to 
  +55°C (+23°F to +131°F)
· Slew rate: 64 mm/s (2.5 inch/s)
Text Printing
· 40 standard width characters 
  per line maximum or 67 
  characters per line maximum 
  in condensed width text
· US, French, German, UK, 2 
  Danish, Swedish, Italian, 2 
  Spanish, Norwegian, and Latin 
  American character sets
· Emphasized and double strike 
  text
· Enlarged, condensed, double 
  height, and half height text
· Sideways and upside down text
· OCR-A and OCR-B character 
  sets
Graphics Printing
· Prints bit-mapped raster graphics 
  images
· MS Windows software driver 
  allows Windows 3.1x or 95x 
  applications to print to FP40i
Bar Code Printing
· Variable size bar codes
· Codes 39, 93, discrete 2 of 5, 
  interleaved 2 of 5, 128, Codabar, 
  EAN/JAN-13 (incorporating 
  UPCA), EAN/JAN-8, and UPC-E
· Landscape printing
Power Requirement
· 15V DC nominal at 6A minimum 
  provided by removable NiCad 
  battery pack or external 
  vehicle supply when fitted with 
  BE40 battery eliminator
Charge Connector
· 4-pin sealed connector provides 
  contacts for charging the internal 
  battery or power input to a BE40 
  battery eliminator

Paper
· Thermally sensitive coated paper
· Optional waterproof coating
· Plain or preprinted
· Label stock available (14m 46.6 
  feet per roll)
· Length 20 m (66 feet) per paper 
  roll
· User defined form length up to 300 
  mm (11.8 inches)
· Width: up to 102 mm (4 inches)
Data Communication
· Infrared, IrDA compatible 
  interface, via window on front 
  panel
· 115 kbit/s maximum data transfer 
  rate
· Range: 1 meter (3.3 feet) within ±
  15°  unobstructed angular
  displacement from window
· Regular audible communication to
  confirm satisfactory path is
  maintained
· Automatic resume if path is broken
  and then restored within an
  established timeout period
· Input Buffers 16 Kbyte - maintains
  continuous printhead operation
  during path
  breaks of less than the timeout
  period

Additional Features
· Optical ‘Head of Form’ sensing
· Friction paper feed
· Paper present detection
· Paper jam detection
· Battery low detection, audible
  warning given
· Storage capacity for a custom
  character set or bar code
  symbology
· Low temperature print density
  compensation
· Adjustable burn time for print
  speed optimization