Dascom LA48N / LA48W Dot Matrix Printers
This product has been discontinued and is no longer manufactured.
It has been replaced by the 2600+ / 2610+ Dot Matrix Printers
The narrow-carriage LA48N and wide-carriage LA48W are designed for a broad spectrum of applications and are specially optimized for the DEC® environment. There's support for DEC®ANSI, IBM® ProPrinter® X24e, and Epson® ESC/P2 emulation.
The 24-pin print head produces clear, crisp output of texts and graphics. The printer has nineteen resident fonts and eight resident bar code fonts ensuring fast, high quality text and dependable bar code printing.
The printer offers simple switching of paper types and auto tear-off functionality. Parking continuous forms makes it easy to switch between continuous forms and single sheets. Continuous forms are automatically fed up to the tear-off position at the end of each job.
With a maximum noise level of only 49 dB(A) the LA48N and LA48W are very quiet printers compared with many competitive models.
- 24 pin print head
- Up to 480 cps
- Up to 5 part forms (Original + 4)
- 8,000 page per month duty cycle
Dot Matrix Specification
| Print Speed | 10 cpi: High Speed Draft 400 (LA48N), 448 (LA48W); Draft 360; LQ 113 |
| Print Method | Serial Impact |
| Resolution | Up to 360 x 360 dpi (ESC/P Emulation only) |
| Throughput | 319 pages per hour (ECMA 132) |
| Character Density | 10, 12, 15, 17.1, 18, 20 cpi |
| Line Density | 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 lpi |
| Printhead Life | 400 M strokes per needle |
| Standard Connectivity | (model variants) Parallel/USB; Parallel/Serial RS232; All 128K input |
| Standard Emulation | DEC ANSI PPL2, IBM? Proprinter, Epson? LQ (ESC P/2) |
| Fonts | Bitmap fonts: Courier 10, Prestige Elite 12, Boldface PS, Compressed Draft 12, High-speed draft 12, OCR-B 10,OCR-A 10, Correspondence 10, PCIA 10, Scalable Fonts: Courier, Nimbus Sans?, Timeless (Normal, Bold, Italic), 8barcodes |
| Consumables | 4 Million Character Ribbon |
| Standard Paper Handling | Auto tear; manual continuous/cut sheet switch; manual paper thickness adjustment. |
| Number of Copies | Orginal + 4 (5-part forms) |
| Paper Type | Continuous forms and Cut forms |
| Paper Weight | Max. 0.35mm (.014 in.) |
| Paper Size | LA48N: Cut sheet: width 4.01-10.51 inches, length 2.99-14.33 inches. Continuous forms: width 4.01-10.51 inches, length over 4 inches. LA48W: Cut sheet: width 4.01-16.53 inches, length 2.99-16.53 inches. Continuous forms: width 4.01-16.53 inches, length over 4 inches |
| Physical Weight | LA48N: 7.3 Kg (16 lbs.); LA48W: 9.7 Kg (21 lbs.) |
| Physical Size | (HxWxD): LA48N: 120x415x330mm (Approx. 4.72 X 16.33 X 12.99 inches) |
| MTBF | 20,000 hours @ 25% duty cycle |
| Acoustic | 49dB(A) |
| Standard Warranty | One Year return to depot |
Further Information
| LA48 Datasheet |