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Able Systems has announced three development and production kits for its recently introduced AP1300 thermal portable printer. The AP1300 range offers options of RS 232, IrDA and Bluetooth interfaces. Respectively available as the AP1300-KIT1 (Serial RS232 only), AP1300-IR-KIT1 (Serial 232 and IrDA) or Ap1300-BT-KIT1 (Serial RS232 and Bluetooth), each kit contains a printer fitted with re-chargeable batteries, a universal trickle charger with mains adaptors, two paper rolls, a data cable, a wall mounting bracket or belt clip, a primary cell adapter for AA cells, and full documentation. The kits can be used in the development environment or in low volume OEM applications. Featuring a high speed, high quality fixed head thermal mechanism, the AP1300 delivers very high quality text and graphics. The new printer is small enough to be held in the hand and has a strong case design that eliminates hinge stress while allowing for the one-handed drop-in insertion of a paper roll. Typical applications for the AP1300 include mobile ticketing and recording, PDA printing, utility billing, in-vehicle receipting, test and measurement equipment, and medical systems. Individual character sets can be chosen by software selection, while the default character set is IBM® 224, CP 437, which includes the Euro currency character. Customisation of character fonts by the user is also possible through the use of Able Systems' own Font Editor Utility software, available separately. The AP1300 comes with an RS-232 interface as standard, with the IrDA interface supporting: IrPHY V1.0, IrLAP, IrLMP, IAS TinyTP and IrCOMM 9-wire. The interfaces operate up to 57,600 baud. The printer also includes a 20K bytes data buffer. Dimensions are 47 x 92 x 108mm and weight is just 330g, including a full paper roll and battery. The printer uses a Fujitsu FTP-628MCL103 printhead that prints 384 dots per line at up to 60mm/s. A complete set of WindowsTM drivers are available from Able Systems.
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