Epson's Year 2000 Internet Website pages have been and will continue to be the Company's primary mechanism for communicating Year 2000 information. The Millennium or Year 2000 problem is the term used to describe the computer malfunctions expected to occur when the calendar flips from 1999 to 2000. Because the first two digits are omitted, many computers will process an incorrect date when the new century arrives. When a computer hardware or software application incorrectly processes the date, the result will be miscalculation for all date dependent applications.
Any calculation involving dates can go awry.
Computers may fail to display or print the correct date, cannot tell which of two dates comes first, misinterpret people. These mistakes lead to errors in such things as interest rate calculations, credit card account information, delivery and billing dates, inventory control, and ticket reservations and issuance. All TM Series Printers, Printer Mechanisms, DM Series Displays, Floppy Disk Drives, Optical Disk Drives and Zip Drives are Year 2000 Ready. These products do not contain an internal calendar and pose no Year 2000 issue. It should be noted that other parts of the computer system to which the peripheral device is attached, such as computer hardware, operating systems, or software applications, may not be Year 2000 ready.