IBM 4232 Heavy Duty Dot Matrix Printer
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Highlights
- Low cost, heavy-duty dot matrix printing solution
- Flexible forms handling capabilities
- Very quiet for office use
- Superb reliability
- The IBM® 4232 Printer offers speed and durability that make it suited for the most demanding print environments and applications. With print speeds of up to 600 characters per second (cps) and superb reliability, the IBM® 4232 Printer out performs other impact
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printers.
With the availability of two industry standard open interfaces and the emulation of the popular IBM Proprinter and Epson** FX 1050, the IBM® 4232 will attach to virtually all hardware systems and will support most application software packages.
The IBM® 4232's compact size and low noise level make it 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.
Improved Productivity
The IBM® 4232 Printer, with its auto-forms load, innovative forms handling features, and easy-to-use operator controls and menu selections, will improve productivity and virtually eliminate user frustration, paper jamming, and costly paper loss.
The IBM® 4232 prints a wide range of applications by offering four print speeds and quality modes. The fast draft quality at 600 cps provides high speed for large print jobs while the near letter quality (NLQ) mode of 100 cps provides clean crisp correspondence for word processing applications required in today's electronic office. 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. The IBM 4202 Proprinter, IBM 4224 Printer, and Epson FX 1050 Printer emulations protect an investment in forms inventory and applications software.
Benefits
The IBM® 4232 Printer is a rugged, heavy-duty dot matrix impact printer that offers excellent price/performance. It brings the benefits and productivity features usually provided by higher-cost system printers down to the workstation environment. For example, custom setup profiles allow users to store and retrieve as many as four different collections of printer setup values. This means users can switch instantly from one application to another and thereby improve user productivity and eliminate adjustment errors.
Printing Where You Need It
At only 53 dBA, the IBM® 4232 is one of the quietest printers in its speed and price range - making it suitable for virtually any business environment. And with its small footprint, the IBM® 4232 can be placed wherever a need for printing exists.
Versatile Forms Handling
The ability to use cutsheet paper provides the 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® 4232 printer to be easily adapted to a variety of different forms applications including preprinted multi-part forms, labels, cardstock, checks, and mailer forms to name a few.
Summary
The IBM® 4232 Printer is the work horse of dot matrix printers and provides these key benefits:
High speed print output (600 cps)
Reliability and ruggedness
Excellent print quality
Versatile paper handling
Workstation and LAN attachment
Text message display (LCD)
Auto-forms thickness adjust
Auto-forms loading
Zero Tear Bar
Automatic Eject/Restore after timeout or data
Quiet printing - one of the quietest printers in its class
Graphics capability, including bar codes
US Postal Service Postnet** Bar Code printing certified
**Novell is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. Epson is a registered trademark of Seiko Epson Corporation. Postnet is a trademark of the U. S. Postal Service.
IBM 4232 Printer at a glance
Print Speed
Fast draft mode: 600 cps
Data processing (DP) mode: 400 cps
DP text mode: 200 cps
NLQ mode: 100 cps
Print Options
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.
Horizontal spacing :
10, 12, 15, 16.7, 17.1, and 20 characters per inch
Proportional spacing is available in DP text and NLQ modes
Maximum print line: 13.6"
Bar codes:
resident bar codes accessed via programming control sequence functions or by using bit image graphics PPDS commands with requisite host applications 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
Auto-forms loading
Paper Sizes
Continuous forms
3" to 15" Wide
3" to 14" Length
Cutsheet forms
3" to 15" Wide
5" to 14" Length
Interfaces
Standard - Serial (RS-232C and RS-422A) and Parallel (Centronics Parallel)
Emulations
IBM 4202 Proprinter II XL
IBM 4202 Proprinter III XL
IBM 4224 model 3XX
EPSON FX 1050
System Attachments
Application System/400 AS/400 Attachment:
AS/400 via ASCII Workstation Controller or PC Workstation
348x, 3477, and 3197 AS/400 Display Stations
RISC System/6000 Attachment:
Direct attach to RISC System/6000 or via workstation
PC Attachment:
IBM Personal System/2 and compatibles
LAN Attachment
Ethernet and IBM Token-Ring via a PC or the Novell**-certified IBM 4033 LAN adapter box or equivalent
S/390 Attachment
IBM 3174 via the Asynchronous Emulation Adapter
PC workstation
IBM 3482 InfoWindow II Display Station
Physical Characteristics
Width: 25.9" (658mm)
Depth: 15.6" (396mm)
Height: 12.4" (315mm)
Weight: 45 lb. (20.4 kg)
Power Requirements
100-127 V, 1-phase, 50/60 Hz
200-240 V, 1-phase, 50/60 Hz
Environmental Conditions
Noise emission
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
**Novel is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc.
Epson is a registered trademark of Seiko Epson Corporation. Postnet is a trademark of the US Postal Service.
