Xerox 4215 MICR MRP Installation Guide

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Overview
The Xerox 4219/MRP and 4215/MRP Mid Range Systems Printers
connect directly to your IBM AS/400 mid range computer or IBM
host system.  The paper handling features support shared printer
requirements.
Your printer accepts commands and data from an IBM coax or
twinax host, depending on the interface card installed on the
printer controller board.
This chapter describes standard and optional features, as well as
those features uniquely designed to support the coax or twinax
environments.
Standard features
Standard features of the printer include:
Support for twinaxial or coaxial environments, depending on
the interface card installed
Emulation of IBM printers
Support of popular industry standard print languages:
— IBM Standard SCS
— Hewlett-Packard Printer Control Language (PCL
 
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— Adobe PostScript
 
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— Intelligent Printer Data Stream (optional)
Xerox Configuration and Resource Utility that allows you to
configure the printer twinax or coax interface through a
menu-driven interface from your host system.  This utility also
downloads fonts and forms from the host system to the
printer  
PS/PCL Sensing that allows the printer to switch automatically
among the print languages, based on the print language of
the incoming job in the data stream sent to the printer
R-S232C serial interface
Enhanced parallel port (Centronics)
105 fonts:
— 35 PostScript scalable fonts
— 8 scalable Hewlett-Packard IIISi fonts
— 7 bitmapped Hewlett-Packard IIISi fonts
— 55 IBM 3816 downloadable emulation fonts 
Multiple active ports, with sequential or priority servicing
Connections for two optional I/O interfaces
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