The EPSON LQ-2090 brings exceptional performance to the 24pin segment. In addition to high speed printing up to 529 characters per second, it is extremely compact, robust and reliable. This is perfect for the relentless everyday demands of busy environments like doctors' surgeries, banks, travel agencies and freight forwarders. Versatile paper management also comes as standard, for fast, flexible printing of orders and invoices, labels, system event logs, cheques and barcodes. The Perfect Printer for Medium and Large Print Volumes: This printer is built to last in even the most difficult printing environments. The print mechanism has a Mean Volume Between Failure (MVBF) rating of 40 million lines, a Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) of 20,000 power on hours, a print head life of 400 million strokes per wire, and a long life ribbon that will last up to 8 million characters.