Printronix P4280, Speed 800 LPM Line Matrix Printer, P4280 [P4280] - Refurbished Printronix P4280 • Quiet operation • Print speeds of up to 800 lines per minute (lpm) Printronix P4280, Host Computer Interface • Dataproducts-compatible parallel interface • Centronics-compatible parallel interface • RS-232 serial interface, Printronix P4280, Printer Command and Control • Three printer emulations are selectable at the control panel and controlled by software:
1) Printronix P-Series emulation 2) Printronix P-Series XQ emulation 3) Serial Matrix printer emulation (similar to the IBM Graphic Printer, but with more features) 4) All emulation software, fonts, and character sets are permanently stored in printer Read–Only Memory (ROM).
Output Control Five modes for printing text: 1) Near-Letter Quality (NLQ) 2) Data Processing (DP) 3) High Speed (HS), with a choice of three vertical densities 4) Optical Character Recognition Font A (OCR-A) 5) Optical Character Recognition Font B (OCR-B) • Selectable alternate horizontal and vertical dot densities enable you to tailor output to a wider variety of printing requirements. • Selectable forms length • Character attribute specification: 1) Selectable pitch: normal, expanded, and compressed 2) Emphasized (“shadow”) printing 3) Double strike (bold) printing 4) Automatic underlining 5) Superscript and subscript printing 6) Double high printing • Resident multinational character sets • Downloadable character sets and international languages. You can add international languages to the font library and access them in both P-Series and Serial Matrix emulations. • RibbonMinder, a ribbon ink–life indicator Graphics and Vertical Formatting Several graphics and vertical formatting features are available: Two built-in graphics generators: 1) P-Series odd-even dot Plot Mode 2) Bit-image graphics (serial matrix printer emulation) Programmable electronic vertical formatting provides rapid vertical paper movement to specified lines for printing repetitive and continuous forms. You can choose from a variety of methods: 1) EVFU: Printronix Electronic Vertical Format Unit 2) DAVFU: Dataproducts-compatible Direct Access Printronix P4280, Vertical Format Unit 3) NVFU: Printronix New direct access Vertical Format Unit 4) CVFU: Centronics-compatible direct access Vertical Format Unit 5) Vertical tabbing in Serial Matrix emulation mode |