M8310 Kanji Printer

Announced in 1981, this was Mitsubishi Electric's first online kanji (Chinese character) printer. It employed the OFT (Optical Fiber Tube) system used in offline printers. The M8310 had a printing speed of 2,440LPM (line/min) at 6LPI (line/inch). Both 9 point (30×30dot) and 12 point (40×40dot) character sizes could be used, and 12-point-character patterns were automatically synthesized from 9-point-character patterns. This printer also had overlay printing and copy functions.