---
title: "TS 2040 Printer"
id: 13638
type: "product"
slug: "printer"
url: "http://localhost/product/printer/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/product/printer.md"
published_at: "2019-11-30T01:19:36+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-03-22T13:20:32+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2040-and-box.jpg"
excerpt: "The 2040 printed on 4.3\" wide thermal paper in 32 columns. All Timex computers could print individual lines (LPRINT), list programs (LLIST) or dump the screen (COPY) to the printer. The 2040 improved on the ZX Printer by adding two ferrite rings around the cable to reduce TV and radio interference and an interface IC,…"
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  - name: "Zebra Systems"
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  title: "Timex Computer Corporation"
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  url: "http://localhost/company/timex-computer-corporation/"
model_2: "TS 2040"
price: 99.95
date: 1983
rarity: "Common"
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    title: "T/S 2040 Printer Schematic"
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    title: "TS 2040 Dust Cover"
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    title: "OS 64 Cartridge"
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    title: "Large Print on 2040"
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    title: "The 1984 Consumer Electronics Show"
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  - id: 23192
    title: "Plotting Charts and Curves on the T/S 2040"
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  - id: 19469
    title: "Memotech 32K-Timex Incompatibility Reported"
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  - id: 19546
    title: "Memotech, Printer Incompatibility Solved"
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    title: "On the Timex Printer/Memotech Memory Compatibility Problem"
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  - id: 45161
    title: "Memopak RAM and TS 2040 Printer Compatibility"
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  - id: 44290
    title: "Printing True Curves and Figures With TS 2040 Printer"
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  - id: 20122
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  - id: 42275
    title: "T/S1000/ZX81 32-Column Printers: T/S 2040 and Alphacom 32 Compared"
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    title: "The New, Low-Cost Printers"
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    title: "Also from Timex: a new printer"
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    title: "New Products Directory: Printer for Timex-Sinclair"
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  - id: 20433
    title: "Timex makes a clearer printer"
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    title: "Banner Writer"
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    title: "Correcting Graphics on Printers"
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    url: "http://localhost/article/correcting-graphics-on-printers/"
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    title: "Extended Problem"
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    title: "Fat Characters"
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  - id: 43044
    title: "Have You Lost Your Grip?"
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    title: "More on Darkening the Printer"
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    title: "Paul Snyder’s T/S 2040 Program"
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    title: "2040 Printer (A Review)"
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  - id: 24516
    title: "The Timex/Sinclair 2040 Personal Printer"
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---

# TS 2040 Printer

The 2040 printed on 4.3″ wide thermal paper in 32 columns. All Timex computers could print individual lines (LPRINT), list programs (LLIST) or dump the screen (COPY) to the printer.

The 2040 improved on the [ZX Printer](http://localhost/product/zx-printer/) by adding two ferrite rings around the cable to reduce TV and radio interference and an interface IC, the 74LS10. The IC helps to decode A7 and A2 instead of only A2 on the ZX Printer.

The 2040 was built by Brown Kellog’s subsidiary, [Alphacom](http://localhost/company/alphacom/). They later marketed the same printer as the [Alphacom 32](http://localhost/product/alphacom-42-printer/).

You can get paper for the printer on Amazon and other sources. Look for [thermal paper on rolls that is 110mm wide](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CSCNSFPT?th=1).