Table87. 4247 Printer (continued)
Operator-adjustable forms yes
Printhead resolution (pels-per-inch) 144 x 144
Maximum characters per second (cps) per month (duty cycles) 20,000,000
Printable Area
The size of the printable area is set using a printer configuration option. If the defined printable area is not
large enough to contain the page of data, a data-check exception (position check) occurs.
Selecting the Printing Medium
This section describes how to select the various available paper sources on the 4247-001 Printer for
Coaxial and Twinaxial applications, using the SCS or IPDS support in the printer.
Note: For the ASCII data streams supported over the parallel port, select the same paper source as on
the 4247 Model A00 Printer.
Specifying the Source of the Medium for a 4247-001 Printer
Although the 4247-001 printer is a continuous forms printer, options can enable it to support a second
continuous forms source, or an automatic cut sheet feeder source, or both. The maximum possible paper
sources for the 4247-001 are:
Front Continuous forms paper fed through the front of the printer. This uses either the Front Push, Rear
Pull, or Push-Pull tractor configurations.
Rear Continuous forms paper fed through the rear of the printer. This is only with the Rear Push tractor
configuration.
ASF Bin 1
Automatic Sheet Feeder Bin 1
ASF Bin 2
Automatic Sheet Feeder Bin 2
ASF Bin 3
Automatic Sheet Feeder Bin 3
ManualManual cut sheet
Identifying the Paper Source (Media IDs)
The method you use to select the manual cut sheet feed varies, depending on whether the printer is IPDS
or SCS, or attached by Twinaxial or Coax. More information follows in the specific sections about PSF,
AS/400, and GDDM.
Selecting Paper Sources Compatible with Other Printers
Many non-impact cutsheet printers, 4230, or 42 x 4 printers with an automatic sheet feed (ASF) option
have existing applications that use media ID values 1-3, specified in an AFP Form Definition, or in job
control language, DDS or Printer Files that support a DRAWER or BIN parameter.To configure the 4247
Printer so that you can print these jobs without changing the application or job submission, put the
4247-001 printer into either the 4230-emulation or the 4224-emulation mode and have ONLYthe ASF
paper handling device attached.
Note: No tractors can be installed. In this configuration, the paper sources are identified by the host
application as follows:
ASF Bin 1
Media ID = 1
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