IBM US
Announcement
Supplemental Information
October 22, 2002
Technical Description
• High speed:
− Fast Draft print speed of up to 1,100 characters per
second (cps)
− DP print speed of up to 800 cps
− DP Text print speed of up to 480 cps
− NLQ print speed of up to 240 cps
• Heavy duty with a workload capacity of up to 64,000
pages per month
• Ethernet and Token-Ring LAN attachment
• Twinax and coax attachment
• Serial RS-232 and RS-422 port and
Centronics-compatible PC Parallel and 1284
Bidirectional Parallel attachment
• IBM 4202 Proprinter III XL, IBM Personal Printer 2381,
and Epson FX (FX 80-1050 and DFX 5000/8000)
emulation modes for parallel, serial, and LAN
attachment
• IBM 3268, IBM 3287, IBM 4224, and IBM 4230
emulation for coax attachment
• IBM 4214, IBM 4224, and IBM 4230 emulation for
twinax attachment
• Native mode 4247-V03 drivers for AIX
and OS/400
environments, shipped on diskette with the printer
• Native mode 4247-V03 drivers for Windows 95/98,
Windows NT
, Windows 2000, Windows Me, and
Windows XP, available for downloading on the IBM
Printing Systems Web page:
http://www.ibm.com/printers
• Downloadable font support (IBM Proprinter or Epson)
• Resident bar codes
—
accessible via PPDS control
using 4247 native mode commands and IPDS
in coax
and twinax:
− Code 3-of-9
− UPC-A and UPC-E
− EAN-8 and EAN-13
− UPC/EAN Supplemental encodations (2 and 5
characters)
− Matrix 2-of-5
− Industrial 2-of-5
− Interleaved 2-of-5
− MSI
− Code 128
− Codabar
− Postnet
• Maximum text print resolution of 200 x 144 dots per
inch at 20 characters per inch Near Letter Quality
(NLQ) mode
• Maximum graphics print resolution of 240 x 144 dots
per inch
• LAN connectivity
− Internal Ethernet 10/100BASE-T adapter
− Network Print Server features
− RPQs for IPDS data on the twinax or coax ports to
attach to Token-Ring and Ethernet
Hardware Requirements
The IBM 4247 Model V03 attaches to:
• Ethernet networks via the internal Ethernet
10/100BASE-T adapter or the Network Print Server
features
• Token-Ring networks via the Network Print Server
features
• IBM Personal Computer ports or to a Token-Ring or
Ethernet LAN via one of these computers
• IBM-compatible PCs
• pSeries
and RS/6000 workstations (excluding
POWERserver
930)
• iSeries
and AS/400 twinax terminals including
IBM 348x InfoWindow
II display stations, the IBM
3477 InfoWindow display station, and the IBM 3197
display workstation
The SCS coax interface (#4230) and the IPDS coax
interface (#4240, #4242) will attach to:
• IBM 3174 Controller
—
Terminal port (using
Release A5.5 or later, Release B4.0 or later, or
Release C6.0 or later)
The twinax SCS interface (#4210, #4212) will attach to:
• iSeries and AS/400 systems
• IBM System/36
• IBM 5394 and IBM 5494 Control Units
The twinax IPDS interface (#4220, #4222) will attach to:
• iSeries and AS/400 systems
• IBM 5394 and IBM 5494 Control Units
The Serial Attachment (#4250, #4252) will attach using
RS-232C to:
• IBM AS/400 ASCII workstation controller
• IBM 3174 controller via the Asynchronous Emulation
Adapter
This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative,
call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com.
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