Upgrade Path for ND640, ND680, ND825 & NDSprint Printers

Existing Printer Model:	Upgrades to:	Upgrades to:
ND640	ND2500	ND3106, ND3106C OR ND3207
ND680	ND2600	ND3106, ND3106C OR ND3207
ND825	ND2700 or ND2700C	ND3210
NDSprint	ND2700 or ND2700C	ND3210
Speed Of Throughput:
ND640 - 400cps	ND2500 - 500cps	ND3106/C - 600cps or ND3207 - 700cps
ND680 - 800cps	ND2600 - 600cps	ND3106/C - 600cps or ND3207 - 700cps
ND825 - 250lpm	ND2700/C - 700cps	ND3210 - 1000cps
NDSprint - 350lpm	ND2700/C - 700cps	ND3210 - 1000cps
Even though the ND2600 and ND2700 printers appear to be slower they perform faster in real time printing applications; the following ECMA figures give real time performance. In fact the ND2600 is only 6% @80 column and 2% @132 column slower than the ND825 whilst being 3.5% faster than the NDSprint @80 Column printing applications. Compare the printing speeds of the ND2700’s, ND3207 and ND3210 and you will see they are faster in real time applications compared to 500 lpm line matrix printers at average of 40% lower in price!!
Draft ECMA 132 Column Spreadsheet @ 10 cpi Draft (*pph - pages per hour)
ND640 - 234pph	ND2500 - 470pph	ND3106/C - 500pph
ND680 - 341pph	ND2600 - 500pph	ND3207 - 580pph
ND825 - 410pph	ND2700/C - 750pph	ND3210 - 800pph
NDSpint - 528pph	ND2700/C - 750pph	ND3210 - 800pph
Print Quality:
The ND2000 Series print heads have 24 pins resulting in higher print resolution to graphics printing such as bar codes; the ND640, ND680, ND825 and NDSprint had only 9 pins. Bar Codes can now be produced with better print quality offering a higher readability percentage.
Paper Handling:
Printer	Paper Handling	Printer	Paper Handling
ND640	Pull Tractor	ND2500 & ND3106	Single Push Tractor
ND680	Pull Tractor	ND2600	Push Tractor, Manual Cut Sheet, Optional ASF x3
ND825	Pull Tractor	ND2700 & ND3207	Dual Push Tractor
NDSprint	Pull Tractor	ND2700C & ND3106C	Dual Push Tractor with Integrated Cutting Device
Zero Tear Off (Zero Forms Wastage):
The ND640, ND680, ND825 and NDSprint use pull tractors to move the forms through the printer, this meant that you wasted a form every time you required seeing the last printed page. The ND2000 & ND3000 Series printers all use push tractors to move the forms through the printer, this means all can utilise a Zero Tear Off feature allowing the last printed page to be removed without wasting the following form. The ND2700C & ND3106C printers have an integrated cutting device, which cuts the forms on demand at the end of each page or at the end of the batch (Job).
Interfaces:
The ND2000 & ND3000 Series offer a wider range of exchangeable interfaces including NDR Parallel/Serial, NDR Ethernet 10baseT/10base2, IBM Twinax, IBM Coax, DEC Ethernet, HP Ethernet, Token Ring UTP/STP & 802.11b WLAN
Emulations & Drivers:
The ND2000 Series are supplied with the Epson ESC/P and DEC LA210 emulation’s already used in the ND640, ND680, ND825 and NDSprint making them backward compatible. ND3000 Series are supplied with Epson LQ & IBM Proprinter emulation. In addition the ND2000 & ND3000 Series also offer IBM IPDS, IGP, HP with NDR Bar Code emulation is to follow shortly. All printers are supplied with Windows 3.1, 3.11 , 95 & NT drivers.