1-28 General Information Rev. E
1.6.3 Reliability
1.6.3.1 Receipt printer section:
1.6.3.2 Slip/Validation printer section:
Life: Mechanism: 15,000,000 lines (when using monochrome
thermal paper), 7,500,000 lines (when using two-color
thermal paper)
The printer is defined to have reached the end of its life when
it reaches the beginning of the Wearout Period.
MTBF: 360,000 hours
In the printer’s life of 15 million lines (in monochrome
printing) or 7.5 million lines (in two-color printing). Failure is
defined as a Random Failure occurring at the time of the
Random Failure Period.
MCBF: 72,000,000 lines
This is an average failure interval based on failures relating to
Wearout and Random Failures up to the life of 15 million
lines (in monochrome printing) or 7.5 million lines (in two-
color printing).
Thermal head life: 100 million pulses, 100 km (when using monochrome thermal
paper), 50 km (when using two-color thermal paper)
Autocutter life: 1,500,000 cuts
Life: Mechanism: 15,000,000 lines
The printer is each defined to have reached the end of its life
when it reaches the beginning of the Wearout Period.
MTBF: 180,000 hours
Failure is defined as a Random Failure occurring during the
Random Failure Period.
MCBF: 37,000,000 lines
This is an average failure interval based on failures relating to
Wearout and Random Failures up to the life of 15 million
lines.