Description

The IBM 4247 Model V03 Printer builds on the strengths of previous models of the IBM 4247 family while providing a new Fast Draft mode with a faster print speed.

Print Speed

Print speeds (in characters per second) of the 4247-V03 are up to:

•1,100 cps at 10 characters per inch (cpi) in Fast Draft mode

•800 cps in DP mode

•480 cps in DP Text mode

•240 cps in NLQ mode

The print speeds in lines per minute are up to:

•500 lines per minute at 40 characters per line

•300 lines per minute at 132 characters per line

Heavy-Duty, Reliable Printing

The 4247-V03 is a professional industrial heavy-duty printer with metal covers and a workload capacity of up to 64,000 pages per month. The 18-wire print head provides reliable printing on up to 8-part forms in DP, DP Text, and NLQ print modes.

Flexible Forms Handling

The IBM 4247 Printer provides exceptional forms-handling

flexibility. The base printer includes one continuous-forms tractor path, and a second continuous-forms front tractor paper path is optional. No rear tractor path is available.

This dual front paper path capability can translate into a single printer performing work that formerly required two or more printers. Users can load different forms into each tractor path and then enable the path that corresponds to the desired print job.

Print Quality Comparison

Fast Draft is a new print quality for the IBM 4247 that is available only on the Model V03. The Data Processing (DP), Data Processing Text (DP Text), Near Letter Quality (NLQ), OCR-A, and OCR-B print qualities on the 4247-V03 are equivalent in character size, shape, and resolution to the print qualities available on the 4247 Model A00, 001, 002, and 003 printers.

The following table summarizes the print quality for Fast Draft, DP, DP Text, and NLQ.

				Vertical
			Horizontal	Cell
Print	Horizontal	Vertical	Cell Size	Size
Quality	dpi	dpi	(Dots)	(Dots)
Fast	45	72	9	9
Draft
DP	60	72	12	9
DP Text	100	72	20	9
NLQ	100	144	20	18

Operator Panel

The 4247-V03 includes the same full-function, full-size operator panel as today′s Model 003. It includes a 2 line by 40 character display, making messages and menus easy to understand.

Printer Data-Stream Emulations

Emulation modes to easily replace many older printers include:

•ASCII emulation for the IBM Proprinter III XL, IBM 2381 Personal Printer, and Epson FX printers

•Coax emulations for the IBM 3268, IBM 3287, IBM 4224, and IBM 4230

•Twinax emulations for the IBM 4214, IBM 4224, and IBM 4230

In addition, native IBM 4247 mode is selectable with each attachment.

Parallel Attachment

The IBM 4247 Model V03 base printer includes a parallel port as standard. For the parallel port:

•Printers emulated are Proprinter III XL, IBM 2381 Personal Printer, and Epson FX80 Ð 1170.

•Data streams supported are PPDS and Epson FX.

Optional Twinax and Coax SCS Attachment

Features

The optional Coax SCS Attachment:

•Emulates the IBM 3268/3287, IBM 4224, and IBM 4230 as well as providing native support for the IBM 4247

•Supports 3270/DSC/DSE and SCS data streams

The optional Twinax SCS Attachment:

•Emulates the IBM 4214 and IBM 4230

•Supports the PDS data stream

Each attachment also supports native IBM 4247 mode.

Optional Twinax and Coax IPDS Attachment

Features

With the Coax IPDS Attachment (#4240, #4242) and Twinax IPDS Attachment (#4220, #4222), the 4247-V03 can be driven by Advanced Function Presentation (AFP ) applications supported by Print Services Facility (PSF) and GDDM .

Optional Ethernet LAN Attachment Capability

Direct LAN attachment to Ethernet 10/100BASE-T LANs is provided via the Ethernet 10/100BASE-T LAN Attachment features (#4260, #4262).

The Ethernet 10/100BASE-T LAN Attachment features use both the parallel port and the optional attachment port of the printer. Therefore, when using these attachments, the 4247-V03 supports only Ethernet 10/100BASE-T. IPDS support is not provided by these Ethernet LAN features. For IPDS Ethernet, the Ethernet IPDS RPQ 8B4314 must be used.

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