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Highlights
-
Low-cost, flexible, heavy-duty dot matrix printing solution
- Customizable operator panel
- Flexible forms handling capabilities
- Very quiet for office use
- Superb reliability
- Backed by IBM's unparalleled service and support
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.
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 pre-configured 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.
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.
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. 
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.
Service Beyond Expectations
IBM
offers a full range of services to meet your needs covering your complete
print solution from hardware maintenance to software support--all accessible
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
When the need for service arises, our worldwide staff of Customer Engineers
utilize F.I.R.S.TTM*, IBM's exclusive database containing
up-to-date product, parts, diagnostics and repair information. They'll
have the knowledge and expertise needed to solve any problem right at
their fingertips, ensuring an efficient service call and maximum printer
uptime.
Summary
The
IBM®
4230
Printer is the workhorse of dot matrix printers and provides these key
benefits:
- High-speed print output (up to 600 cps)
- A choice of resolutions: 240, 300 or an option to switch between 240 and 300-dpi
- Excellent print quality and reliability
- Easy-to-use, customizable operator panel
- Versatile paper handling
- Automatic forms loading and thickness adjustment
- Acoustic levels quieter than many laser printers
- Graphics capability, including bar codes
- U.S. Postal Service Postnet bar code printing capability
- Dual purpose feature provides document on demand
- Unmatched IBM service and support
IBM 4230 Impact Matrix Printers at a glance
| Print
Speed (cps)
|
xx1
|
xx2
|
xx3
|
|
Fast draft mode:
|
375
|
480
|
600
|
|
DP mode:
|
300
|
400
|
400
|
|
DP text mode:
|
150
|
200
|
200
|
|
NLQ mode:
|
75
|
100
|
100
|
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 (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
Barcodes
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
- Automatic forms loading
Paper Sizes
- 3" to 15" wide
- 3" to 14" length continuous forms
- 5" to 14" length cutsheet
| INTERFACES/EMULATIONS
|
101
1S2
|
102
1I1
|
4I3
|
4S3
|
201
2S2
|
202
2I1
|
5I3
|
5S3
|
|
Twinaxial
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
|
|
|
4214 SCS
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
|
|
|
|
| 4224 IPDS
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 4230 IPDS
|
|
|
Y
|
|
|
|
|
|
| SERIAL
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
| PARALLEL/CENTRONICS
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
| EPSON FX
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
| PROPRINTER II
XL
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
| PROPRINTER III
XL
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
| 4224 ASCII
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
| COAXIAL
|
|
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
| 3268 SCS
|
|
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
| 3287 SCS
|
|
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
| 4224 IPDS
|
|
|
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
| 4230 IPDS
|
|
|
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
| System
attachments
|
1xx
|
2xx
|
4xx
|
5XX
|
|
AS/400, System/36
|
Y
|
|
Y(1)
|
|
|
5x94 Control Units
|
Y
|
|
Y(1)
|
|
|
ES/9000, IBM 4300
|
|
Y
|
|
Y
|
|
3174/3274 Control Units
|
|
Y
|
|
Y
|
|
i-data 7913(2)
|
|
Y
|
|
|
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