5100 ￜ FormsPro Series
The PRINTEK® FormsPro 5100 is a top-of-the-line printer series that gives you unmatched reliability and the best in multipart forms printing.
With the capability to handle heavy workloads, a host of standard and optional connectivity choices, and exceptional print speeds, the FormsPro 5100 delivers mission critical printing that keeps your print jobs on time and on budget.
Perfect in industrial settings, the FormsPro 5100 delivers print solutions in the harshest of environments while giving users an easy to navigate control panel and other creature comforts that make printing less labor intense without sacrificing performance.
Brochure →
Quick Setup Guide →
User Guide →
Bottom Tractor Installation Guide →
Drivers and Software →
Where to Buy →
The PRINTEK® FormsPro 5100 is a top-of-the-line printer series that gives you unmatched reliability and the best in multipart forms printing.
With the capability to handle heavy workloads, a host of standard and optional connectivity choices, and exceptional print speeds, the FormsPro 5100 delivers mission critical printing that keeps your print jobs on time and on budget.
Perfect in industrial settings, the FormsPro 5100 delivers print solutions in the harshest of environments while giving users an easy to navigate control panel and other creature comforts that make printing less labor intense without sacrificing performance.
Brochure →
Quick Setup Guide →
User Guide →
Bottom Tractor Installation Guide →
Drivers and Software →
Where to Buy →
The PRINTEK® FormsPro 5100 is a top-of-the-line printer series that gives you unmatched reliability and the best in multipart forms printing.
With the capability to handle heavy workloads, a host of standard and optional connectivity choices, and exceptional print speeds, the FormsPro 5100 delivers mission critical printing that keeps your print jobs on time and on budget.
Perfect in industrial settings, the FormsPro 5100 delivers print solutions in the harshest of environments while giving users an easy to navigate control panel and other creature comforts that make printing less labor intense without sacrificing performance.
Brochure →
Quick Setup Guide →
User Guide →
Bottom Tractor Installation Guide →
Drivers and Software →
Where to Buy →
-
Wide Carriage
The next generation FormsPro 5100 Series printers can solve your toughest printing problems.
With the FormsPro5100 Series you’ll print with greater legibility and unsurpassed reliability.
The FormsPro 5100 Series Features:
With Fast draft speed up to 960 CPS, which prints a typical 1,000-character document in less than 5 seconds.
Zero Tear for no wasted forms.
FP5100 has a single set of tractors, while the FP5102 is set up with 2-tractors providing for loading of 2 different forms.
Auto-Gap feature adjusts the print head according to form thickness.
Store up to 8 different forms on the printer.
Easy forms loading with straight-up paper path eliminates the problem of forms buckling and jamming
FormsPro 5100 series has a “Heavy Forms” setting that provides for increased readability on thick multi-part forms where legibility can be an issue.
-
Print Modes 5100/5102
Fast Draft 960 cps
Draft 800 cps
NLQ 267 cps
Graphics* up to 360 by 360 dpi
Character Matrix
HSQ (12 x 8 half space matrix at 12.0 CPI)
HSQ (12 x 10 half space matrix at 10.0 CPI)
NLQ (24 x 18 half space matrix at 10.0 CPI)
LQ (24 x 36 half space matrix at 10.0 CPI)
Printhead
24 needle (12 needle parallel array)
Character Sets
HS Draft, Draft, Courier, Roman, Sans Serif, Prestiage, OCR-A/B, Orator, Souvenir, Gothic (All resident in NLQ and LQ). DLL is standard.
Character Spacing
5, 6, 7.5, 8.6, 10, 12, 15, 17.1, 20 cpi.
Line Length
13.6 inches (136 Columns @ 10 cpi)
Line Spacing
2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 lpi
Paper Handling
Tear Bar, Park Position, Push Tractor for straight path
Auto-Gap Adjust for Forms thickness
Fanfold, continuous forms, Multi-Part Forms
Operator Controls
Online Mode: Tear Advance
Offline Mode: Park, Form Feed/Line, Adjust for Tear position, Top of Form and Head Gap
Form Parameters
Nonvolatile memory for eight forms, each designates: Paper Path, cpi, lpi, form length, lft/Rt Margin, Skip perf, Ignore Form Feed, Emulations, font
Operating Indicators
2 x 16 LCD for form selection, on/off line status and error descriptions.
Ribbon
Cartridge, 20 million characters
Power Requirements
Auto-switching Voltage (120 V or 230 V)
Frequency (50 or 60 Hz)
70 Watt printing: 2 Watts Power Save
Paper Slew Rate
10 ips, slower rates with Font and Heavy Forms
Paper Width
3" to 16.5" width, 3" to 22" length
Paper Loading
Front loading, Straight-through bottom feed
Optional 2nd Front Tractor - FP5102
Multi-Part Forms
Single tractor (FP5100): 1 + 6 copies
Dual tractor (FP5102): 1 + 6 copies
0.025" max. thickness.
Graphics Density*
up to 360 by 360 dpi
Audible Noise (Draft Mode)
54 dBA
Setup (Automatic Methods)
Control Panel or internal Web Page
I/O Buffer
256k
Standard Interfaces
Ethernet 10/100 Mbit, USB
Optional Interfaces
Ethernet IPDS
Serial/Parallel
Software Controls
Epson LQ-2550, Epson LQ-2170, IBM Proprinter xI24e, MTPL, Genicom ANSI + Barcodes + LCPBarcodes
Physical Specifications
(WxDxH) 24.5" x 17" x 11" 42 lbs.
19 kg
Reliability
MTBF - 20,000
Print Head Life: 750 million characters
Warranty: One-year printer warranty *May be emulation dependent.
