IBM 4230-202 Impact Matrix Printer
The IBM 4230 Impact Matrix Printer family offers high speed, exceptional reliability and rugged durability that make it the right choice for the most demanding print environments and applications. With print speeds of up to 600 characters per second (cps), depending on the model, and superb reliability, the IBM 4230 Printers outperform other impact printers.
IBM 4230-202, Enhanced Productivity With its auto-forms load, innovative forms handling features, customizable operator panel and menu selections, IBM 4230 printers will improve productivity and virtually eliminate user frustration, paper jamming and costly paper loss. The customizable operator panel option allows you to easily lock out specific buttons or make them active again depending on your specific environment. This option can be preconfigured prior to the shipment of your printer. The IBM 4230 offers robust benefits and productivity features in a small package. For example, custom setup profiles allow users to store and retrieve as many as four different menus of printer setup values. This means users can switch instantly from one application to another, thereby improving user productivity and eliminating adjustment errors. IBM 4230-202, Maximum Flexibility In addition, the IBM 4230 prints a wide range of applications by offering four print speeds and quality modes. The fast draft quality provides high speed for large print jobs. The near letter quality (NLQ) mode provides clean, crisp correspondence for word processing applications. Full all-points-addressable graphics capability exists for applications such as bar codes, bar charts and pie charts, scanned logos, forms designs and CAD/CAM drawings.
IBM 4230-202, Quiet Printing Where You Need It At only 53 dBA, the IBM 4230 is quieter than many laser printers, making it suitable for virtually any business environment. And with its small footprint, the IBM 4230 can be placed wherever a need for printing exists. The printer offers either a coaxial, twinaxial, coaxial/ASCII or twinaxial/ASCII attachment, maximizing flexibility while providing a wide range of printer placement options. The IBM 4230 is well-suited to serve as either a high-speed office printer; a heavy-duty primary printer for small systems and LAN installations; or a workstation printer for larger systems and LANs. IBM 4230-202, Versatile Forms Handling The ability to use cut-sheet paper allows full advantage of NLQ printing on letter- head paper for business correspondence applications. The automatic forms- thickness adjustment feature saves users from having to manually adjust the printhead gap and ensures consistent, high-quality forms printing and improved printhead reliability. Additionally, interchangeable paper feed modules permit the IBM 4230 printer to be easily adapted to a variety of different forms applications, including preprinted multi-part forms, labels, cardstock, checks and mailer forms.
IBM 4230-202, Summary The IBM 4230 Printer is the workhorse of dot matrix printers and provides these key benefits:
System Attachments
Model 1xx
Model 2xx
Model 4xx
Model 5xx
—AS/400®, System/36TM
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—5x94 Control Units
— ES/9000®, IBM 4300
— 3174/3274 Control Units
— i-data 79132
— RISC System/6000®
— PS/2® and compatibles
— LAN attachments3
— S/390®4
IBM 4230-202, Line Printer
IBM 4230 Impact Matrix Printers, 4230-202
Print Speed (cps)
Model xx1
Model xx2
Model xx3
—Fast draft mode:
375
480
600
—DP mode:
300
400
—DP text mode:
150
200
—NLQ mode:
75
100
Print Options 4230-202
Vertical spacing:
—6 or 8 lines per inch (lpi) selectable from operator panel for text
—3, 4, 6, 8 or 9 lpi selectable under program control for text
—1/144” increments under program control available for graphics
(Models 1xx, 2I1, 202, 4x3 and 5x3)
Horizontal spacing:
—10, 12, 15 and 16.7 characters per inch
—17.1 and 20 characters per inch on Models 4x3 and 5x3 (ASCII only)
—Proportional spacing is available in DP text and NLQ modes
Maximum print line:
—13.2”; 13.6” on Models 4x3 and 5x3
Bar codes:
—Postnet, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, EAN-13, Code 3 of 9, Code 128,
Interleaved 2 of 5, Codabar, MSL Industrial 2 of 5 and Matrix 2 of 5
Paper Handling
Operator-changeable forms modules:
—Continuous forms up to 6 parts, cutsheet,
document-on-demand/zero tear-off and automatic forms loading
Environmental
Noise Emission:
Conditions
— Printing: 53 dBA; Idling: 30 dBA
Supplies
Ribbon cartridges:
—Auto-inking ribbon, P/N - 1040580, 15 million character life
—High-yield ribbon, P/N - 1040440, 6 million character life
Print Options
Paper Sizes
—3” to 15” width
—3” to 14” length (continuous forms)
—5” to 14” length (cutsheet)
Interfaces/Emulations
IBM 4230-202
101
102
4I3
4S3
201
202
5I3
5S3
1S2
1I1
2S2
2I1
Twinaxial
4214 SCS
4224 IPDSTM
4230 IPDS
Serial
Parallel/Centronics
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