EPSON — Reliability

Appendix Reliability 175 MTBF Overall product 47,500 hours Each component board 170,000 hours Printer 75,000 hours MCBF (Printer) 9,800,000 passes Life (Printer) Print head 6,000 million shots/nozzle Paper feed mechanism 1,500,000 pages or the number of pages that reaches the following paper length fed.  Plain Media: 150 km  Fine Media: 75 km  PET Film: 50 km  Continuous label paper (Plain Media): 100 km  Continuous label paper (Fine Media): 50 km  Continuous label paper (Synthetic Media): 10 km  Die-cut label (Plain Media): 150 km  Die-cut label (Fine Media): 150 km  Die-cut label (Synthetic Media): 50 km  Wrist band (8000-11-PDL): 60 km Autocutter mechanism  Plain Media:

1,500,000 cuts  Fine Media: 750,000 cuts  PET Film: 500,000 cuts  Continuous label (Plain Media): 750,000 cuts (Add extra 250,000 cuts with cleaning the cutter blade)  Continuous label (Fine Media): 500,000 cuts  Continuous label (Synthetic Media): 100,000 cuts  Die-cut label backing paper (Plain Media): 1,500,000 cuts  Die-cut label backing paper (Fine Media): 1,500,000 cuts  Die-cut label backing paper (Synthetic Media): 500,000 cuts  Wrist band (8000-11-PDL):

200,000 cuts Carriage mechanism 6 million passes (3 million carriage returns) Maintenance is requested when it reaches 20,000,000 passes (the printer will stop) Fan  (Time until its rotation frequency drops by 30%) System fan 50,000 hours (ambient temperature 25 C {77 F}) System power fan Printer unit power fan HDD Either 5 years or 20,000-hour power-on total (24-hour continuous operation is not warrantable.)