• 1992

Hardware Description

NEC announced three color thermal-transfer printers in February 1992 that printed 80 columns per line at 48-dot resolution. The three models were the PC-PR101/T165, a color, Japanese-language printer that used a multi-line print head to print at 165 Japanese characters per second, which was fastest print speed of any domestic serial thermal-transfer computer printer; the PC-PR101/T103, which printed at 103 characters per second, and the PC-PR101/T67, which had three standard built-in kanji character fonts — Mincho, Gothic, and Mouhitsu.