EPSON
®
Product Specifications
ActionLaser
™
1500
Printing Method
Laser beam scanning and dry electropho-
Enhanced SelecType
7
switches
tographic process
Control Panel
20-character liquid crystal display
Printer Engine
Minolta; 6 pages per minute
Microprocessor
16.67MHz Motorola 68000
Memory
Standard memory
Maximum memory
capacity
1MB
5MB
Print Speed
Cassette feed
Warm-up time
6 pages per minute
Approx. 35 seconds after cold start
Print Resolution
300 x 300 dots per inch with RITech
(Resolution Improvement Technology)
Paper Types
Xerographic paper (Xerox 4024 or
equivalent), laser labels, envelopes,
transparencies, cardstock
Paper Weights
Input tray
Manual feed
16-241bs.
16 - 42 lbs.
Usable Paper Sizes
Minimum width
Maximum width
Minimum length
Maximum length
Optional lower tray
3.63”
8.5”
5.85”
14.0”
Letter size only
Paper Feed
Input tray
Lower tray
output tray
150 sheets, or 10 envelopes (standard)
250 letter size sheets (option)
100 sheets face down (standard)
20 sheets face-up (option)
Resident Fonts
Courier 10 point
Courier 12 point
EDP 8.5 point
Scalable
Courier, Courier Bold, Courier Italic
(portrait and landscape)
Courier, Courier Bold, Courier Italic
(portrait and landscape)
Medium (portrait and landscape)
EPSON Roman T; EPSON Sans Serif;
EPSON Sans Serif Medium Condensed (all
include Italic, Bold and Bold Italic and are
rotatable and scalable to any point size);
ITC Zapf Dingbats
®
E m u l a t i o n
Built-in Hewlett-Packard
®
LaserJet™ III/
IIIP/IIIsi emulation (PCL 5™);
EPSON FX/LQ; EPSON GL/2
Interfaces
Parallel
Serial
Optional
Automatic printer sharing between the
parallel, serial and optional interface
Centronics
®
-compatible, 8 bit (standard)
High speed data transfer rate (125KB/sec)
RS-232c
(up to 38.4bps)
One optional interface slot accepts one of
the following interfaces: Serial; Parallel;
LocalTalk; Twinax; Coax
Expansion Slots
One HP compatible font cartridge slot
One identity card slot
Sound Level
Printing
Standby
47 dB(A)
35 dB(A)
Consumables
Imaging cartridge
6000
pages @ 5% coverage
Reliability
Rated duty cycle
Life span
11,000 pages/month
180,000 pages
Physical Dimensions
Main unit only
Height
Depth
Width
Weight
8.9”
18”
14.5”
22 lbs. approx.
including imaging cartridge
Environmental
Characteristics
Operating temperature 50° - 95°F
Storage temperature
32° - 95°F
Operating humidity
15% - 85% RH
Storage humidity
30% - 85% RH
Power Requirements
Voltage
Standby
Printing
120 volts AC 50 - 60 Hz
less than 30 watts
less than 500 watts
Product Codes
C108101
AL1500 printer
optional Accessories
C812301
250 sheet lower paper tray
C812311
Face-up output tray
512KBMEM
0.5MB memory upgrade
2MBMEM
2MB memory upgrade
C832021
PostScript Level 2 compatible cartridge
(EpsonScript Level 2)
C823071
32KB Serial interface board Type B
C823101
32KB Parallel interface board Type B
C823141
Coax Interface board Type B
C823151
Twinax interface board Type B
MACLP2
EPSON Talk for AL1000/1500
S051011
Imaging cartridge
Warranty
Two-year limited warranty in the U.S.
support
EPSON Connection information hotline:
U.S.
1-800-922-8911
Canada
1-800-463-7766
Faxback System
310-782-4214
Electronic
Bulletin Board
310-782-4531
EPSON
®
USA: Call 1-800-289-3776 for the nearest dealer location
Epson America, Inc., 20770 Madrona Avenue,
Torrance, CA 90503
Canada: Call 1-800-463-7766 Epson Canada, Ltd.
550 McNicoll
Avenue, Willowdale, Ontario M2H 2E1 Fax: 416-498-4574
Latin America: Call 1-305-265-0092 Epson Latin America
6303 Blue
Lagoon Drive, Suite 390, Miami, Florida 33126 Fax: 305-265-0097
Specifications are subject to change without notice. EPSON is a registered trademark of Seiko Epson
Corporation. ActionLaser is a trademark and EPSON Connection is a service mark of Epson America Inc.
PCL 5 is a trademark of Hewlett-Packard Corporation. All other product and brand names are
trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. EPSON disclaims any
and all rights in these marks. The Energy Star Emblem does not represent EPA endorsement of any
product or service.
1994 Epson America, Inc. CPD-1290-R1 2/94 250M GAC
Printed on Recycled Paper
