GQ-5000                          laser printer
A Laser Printer from Epson
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Epson's new GQ-5000 laser printer has a large reserve of bit-map
fonts, plus new outline fonts, that let you create virtually any
number of style variations. A new generation-control panel with
plain-language messages makes it easy to use. Optional coaxial
and twin-axial connections facilitate linking the printer up to
central computers. The print format is portrait and landscape,
300 by 300 dpi, and the print speed is 6 pages per minute.
 
The GQ-5000 has slots for three IC font cards. The slots are
fully accessible in the four software modes -- Epson's Page
Printer Mode, LQ mode, and FX mode, and Hewlett-Packard LaserJet
II emulation.
 
The Page Printer mode is a page-oriented method with commands
for type design, form setting, and dot/vector graphics that can
manage a maximum of 294 different styles per page. Epson has
increased the bit-map font styles in this mode from 7 to 13. You
can rotate the bit-map fonts in 90-degree steps, and the
Font-Create feature lets you generate an additional 17
variations. New outline fonts for Page Printer mode include Epson
Helvetica, TMSRoman, Courier, and a symbol character set. You can
generate them as upright, bold, italic, and italic bold
characters in sizes ranging from 2.16 to 240 points.
 
The GQ-5000 comes with an automatic paper feed with a bin that
can hold 150 cut sheets. Formats supported are A4, A5, B5,
letter, and legal. An extra bin is available for an additional
250 cut sheets in sizes from A4 letter to legal.
 
The Hewlett-Packard LaserJet II emulation offers a data memory
of 512K bytes, expandable to a maximum of 6 megabytes. The
GQ-5000 comes with Centronics parallel and RS-232C/RS-422 serial
ports and an Epson video interface.
 
Price: 5698 deutsche marks; 1445 deutsche marks for the extra
250-cut-sheet paper bin.
 
Contact: Epson Deutschland GmbH, Heiligengeiststrasse 15, D-3000
Hannover 1, West Germany, 49-511-280-97-01.
 
                              --- Martha Hicks
 
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