HP rp5700 Point of Sale System - Manual (Page 21)

*Duty Cycle - Percentage of time that the specified “Amount of Solid Coverage” can be printed during
a one minute period of time. Example: at 20% solid coverage, 35° C temperature, a 50% duty cycle is
to be used, resulting in 30 seconds of printing and 30 seconds without printing.
For reference:
● A typical receipt with text (contains some blank spaces) is approximately 12% dot coverage.
● A full line of text characters (every cell on the line has a character in it) is approximately 25% dot
coverage.
● Graphics are approximately 40% dot coverage.
● Barcodes are approximately 50% dot coverage.
● A solid black line is 100% dot coverage.
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