Printer Features
The Stylus 1500 is a high-speed, high-quality color ink jet printer designed for business use. The
main features of this printer are:
❏ High print quality for color graphics
720 dots per inch (dpi) printing
High-speed 720 dpi printing
❏ Large-capacity black ink cartridge
3 million characters (LQ mode)
❏ High-speed printing
LQ printing at 200 characters per second (cps)
Draft printing at 400 cps
❏ Built-in auto sheet feeder that holds:
Envelopes and sheets up to 16.5 x 23.4", portrait
100 cut sheets, using 14 lb (55 g/m
2
) paper
10 envelopes
50 transparency sheets
70 sheets of special paper
❏ Built-in push tractor
❏ Two built-in interfaces
Bidirectional parallel I/F (IEEE-P1284 compatible)
Type-B I/F connector for optional interfaces
❏ Easy setup
Multilingual messages (five languages), selected using the control panel
No DIP switches
❏ Four scalable fonts, five LQ fonts, and one draft font installed
Scalable fonts: Roman T, Sans Serif H, Roman, Sans Serif
LQ bitmap fonts: Roman, Sans Serif, Courier, Prestige, Script
❏ Useful character tables
Standard: Italic, PC437, PC850, PC860, PC861, PC863, PC865, BRASCII,
Abicomp, Roman 8, ISO Latin 1
Figure 1-1. Stylus 1500 Exterior View
EPSON Stylus 1500 Service Manual 1-3