About the Product
Fast, reliable forms printing
The Lexmark Forms Printer 2581+ provides high-speed wide forms printing and features such as high-yield ribbons, multi-part form support, and character and page monitoring.
Reliability and performance
Print speeds up to 618 cps at 12 cpi and a rugged design that can handle extreme environments and workloads help you to be productive no matter where you are.
Flexible paper handling
Easily switch between push and pull feeds and print on multiple types of media, including single-part or multi-part continuous forms, sheet-fed wide paper, and single-part or multi-part cut forms.
Easy to use
The easy-to-use operator panel lets you access all of the printer functions, monitor character and page counts and preview fonts.
Long lasting supplies
Replace supplies less often with powerful print heads that last up to 300 million characters and the availability of re-inking ribbons that can print up to 8 million characters.
Printing | |
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Built-in barcodes | CODABAR (NW-7), Code 39, EAN13, EAN8, Industrial 2/5, Interleaved 2/5, POSTNET, UPC-A, UPC-E |
Line spacing | 34.5 cm |
Character pitch | 10,12,15,17.1,20 cpi |
Maximum print speed (LQ) | 100 cps |
Maximum print speed (draft) | 400 cps |
Maximum print speed | 618 cps |
Maximum printing width (columns) | 420 |
Maximum resolution | 240 x 144 DPI |
Colour | No |
Paper handling | |
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Continuous paper length range | 76 - 559 mm |
Continuous paper width range | 76 - 406 mm |
Cut sheet length range | 76 - 559 mm |
Cut sheet width range | 76 - 420 mm |
Features | |
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Certification | UL 60950-1, CSA, FCC Class B, VCCI, CB IEC 60950-1, SEMKO, GS (TÜV), CE Class B, SMA C-Tick |
Noise level (idle) | 15 dB |
Page description languages | Epson ESC/P2, Epson FX, OKI ML, PPDS |
Sound pressure level (printing) | 57 dB |
Buffer size | 512 KB |
Product colour | White |
Ports & interfaces | |
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Optional connectivity | Serial (RS-232) |
Standard interfaces | Parallel, USB |
Endurance | |
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Mean time between failures (MTBF) | 12500 h |
Ribbon life | 8 million characters |
Print head life | 300 million characters |
Print head | 9-pin |
Operational conditions | |
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Operating relative humidity (H-H) | 8 - 90% |
Operating temperature (T-T) | 10 - 40 °C |
System requirements | |
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Windows operating systems supported | Yes |
Linux operating systems supported | Yes |
Server operating systems supported | Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 x64, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 x64 |
Weight & dimensions | |
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Weight | 9.8 kg |
Height | 195 mm |
Depth | 290 mm |
Width | 634 mm |
Packaging data | |
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Package height | 325 mm |
Package depth | 408 mm |
Package width | 751 mm |
Other features | |
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Print technology | Dot matrix |
Network ready | No |
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