【Hitachi】 Printer for the 2020/2050 Work Station

The printers in the Tables below were Hitachi's line of printers for the Hitachi Personal Workstation 2020, and the Hitachi Creative Workstation 2050.

Dot impact printers could print Japanese language documents created with the document processing functions of the 2020/2050 Workstations. They could not print images.

The HT-4372 printer used a horizontal inserter system and had independent mechanisms for feeding continuous and cut paper. Its distinguishing feature was the ability to automatically switch between continuous and cut paper based on commands from a host computer.

The page printers used electrophotography—a technique where output is written with a laser beam—and this enabled high-speed, sharp output of documents containing images.

2020 Printer Specifications
  Kanji (Chinese charac
-ters) printer
Dot printer Thermal transfer printer
HT-5672
-63
HT-4373
-01
HT-4374
-01
HT-4374
-02A
HT-4395
-01
Printing system Wire dot impact Thermal transfer
(180dpi) (180dpi)
Print
-ing speed
Alphanu
-meric
/kana
140line/min 60char/s 90char/s 110char/s 60char/s
Kanji (Chinese charac
-ters)
140line/min 40char/s 60char/s 75char/s 40char/s
High-speed kanji (Chinese charac
-ters)
- 80char/s 120char/s 150char/s -
Printed character font Kanji (Chinese characters) 24×24dot,Alphanumeric/kana 12×24dot(horizontal×vertical)
Number of printed characters Kanji (Chinese characters) 88char/line,Alphanumeric/kana 132char/line
Printing paper Continuous paper Continuous paper,Cut paper Cut paper
Automatic feed mechanism No Yes (optional)
Announcement date 1985

  Dot printer Horizontal inserter printer
HT-4374
-01
HT-4374
-12
HT-4373
-21
HT-4372
-21F
Printing system Wire dot impact
(160dpi)
Printing speed Alphanumeric/kana 140line/min 110char/s 90char/s 90char/s
Kanji (Chinese characters) 140line/min 75char/s 610char/s 610char/s
High-speed kanji (Chinese characters) 140line/min 150char/s 100char/s 100char/s
Printed character font Kanji (Chinese characters) 24×24dot,Alphanumeric/kana 12×24dot(horizontal×vertical)
Number of printed characters Kanji (Chinese characters) 88char/line,Alphanumeric/kana 132char/line
Printing paper Continuous paper,Cut paper
Automatic feed mechanism Yes (optional) No Yes
Announcement date 1985
2050 Printer Specifications
  Dot printer
HT
-4371
-11
HT
-4371
-12
HT
-4371
-51
HT
-4377
-11
HT
4377
-11F
Printing system Wire dot matrix
Print
-ing font
Alphanu
-meric
/kana
8×16,12×24dot
Kanji (Chinese charac
-ters)
16×16,24×24dot
Print
-ing speed
Alphanu
-meric
/kana
90char/s 134char/s 120char/s 262char/s 428char/s
Kanji (Chinese charac
-ters)
45char/s 67char/s 60char/s 113char/s 214char/s
Recording dot density 160dot/25.4mm 180dot/25.4mm 160dot/25.4mm
Printing paper Continuous paper,Cut paper
Automatic feed mechanism optional No Yes
Announcement date 1985

  Dot printer
HT-4377-51 HT-4377-51F HT-4377-21
Printing system Wire dot matrix
Printing font Alphanumeric/kana 8×16,12×24dot
Kanji (Chinese characters) 16×16,24×24dot
Printing speed Alphanumeric/kana 200char/s 380char/s 120char/s
Kanji (Chinese characters) 100char/s 190char/s 60char/s
Recording dot density 180dot/25.4mm 160dot/25.4mm
Printing paper Continuous paper,Cut paper
Automatic feed mechanism No Yes No
Announcement date 1985

  Horizontal inserter printer Thermal transfer color printer Page printer
HT-4372 -A1 HT-4372 -A1F HT-4372 -B1M HT-4392 -21 HT-4555 -11
Printing system Wire dot matrix Thermal transfer Xerography
Printing font Alphanu
-meric
/kana
8×16,12×24dot Effective printing range
(A4)
Vertical:1,920dot
Horizontal:1,568dot
24×24dot
32×32dot
48×48dot
64×64dot
Kanji (Chinese charac
-ters)
16×16,24×24dot
Printing speed Alphanu
-meric
/kana
120char/s 200char/s 140char/s approx.1min/A4 Approx. 8sheet
/min(A4) during multi-copy
Kanji (Chinese charac
-ters)
60char/s 100char/s 70char/s
Recording dot density 160dot/25,4mm 8dot/mm 240dot/
25.4mm
Printing paper Continuous paper,Cut paper Roll paper B4, B5, A4, A5
Automatic feed mechanism No Yes No No Cassette (approx. 200sheets)
Announcement date 1985

 
HT-4372 Horizontal Inserter PrinterHT-4374 Dot Printer