Attachments
The IBM 4400 Thermal Label Printers attach to the systems, controllers, and processors described below:
Table 95. Attachments for the 4400 Thermal Label Printer
Interface Type System/Control Unit/Processor Attachment
ASCII AS/400 ASCII Workstation Controller port on 9402 (except
Model Y10), 9404, and 9406
3197, 3477, 3486/87/88 Terminal (Parallel port only)
3174 Controller Asynchronous Emulation Adapter
ES/9370 ASCII Subsystem
Micro Channel 370 ASCII serial or parallel port
RS/6000 ASCII serial or parallel port
PC, PS/2 ASCII serial or parallel port
IBM-Compatible PCs ASCII serial or parallel port
Non-IBM Systems ASCII serial or parallel port
Coax 3174 Controllers Coaxial ports (Release A3.0 or higher)
ES/9370, ES/9000 Workstation Subsystem
Processors Controller port (#6020 or #6120
S/390 Parallel Enterprise Servers via 3174 Controller
Twinax AS/400 Twinaxial Workstation Controller port on 9402, 9404,
and 9406
AS/400 Advanced 36 Twinaxial Workstation Controller
S/36 Workstation Controller port on 5360, 5362, 5363,
and 5364
5394 and 5494 Control Unit Workstation port
LAN Ethernet Ethernet 10/100 BaseT Adapter
Software Requirements
The following table summarizes the IPDS support by platform.
Table 96. IPDS Support for the 4400 Thermal Printer
Base Support: PSF/MVS V2.2.0
PSF for OS/390
PSF/VSE V2.2.1 PSF/400 V4.3 or
later
PSF V3.1.0 or later
Base Support:
4028 Dev. Type
3816 Dev. Type
240 DPI Resolution
300 DPI Resolution
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Roll Input Yes Yes Yes Yes
Roll Output Yes Yes Yes Yes
AFP/IPDS Towers:
(Not including lf3)
All All All All
Printer Connectivity:
Ethernet TCP/IP
Twinax
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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