PrintBox TxS Plus & CxS Plus Twinax / Coax Interface for Serial Printers

Connect Your Serial Interface Laser, Matrix or Barcode Label Printer to your IBM iSeries AS/400 Over Twinax

PLEASE NOTE:  The I-O CorporationPrintBox TXP Lite and CXP Lite Twinax and Coax Printer Interfaces are no longer manufactured.   The direct replacement for the TXP Lite and TXP+  Twinax Interface is the Praim PR165e Twinax-to-Parallel Printer Interface .  For the CXP Lite and CXP+ Coax Interface the  Axis AX-7 Cobra Coax-to-Parallel Printer Interface is the direct replacement .  Please click on either of these to products for more information.

Overview

The I-O Print Box TXS/CXS Plus turns any serial interface ASCII laser, dot-matrix or barcode label printer into a powerful Twinax or Coax printer. It can easily be configured to meet the most demanding printing requirements.

If you need a Parallel-to-Twinax printer interface, click here to be taken to the TXP+/TXS+  Printer Interface page.

If you need Twinax AFP or IPDS printing, please click here for the 4465-TX. 

Features

• Attaches virtually any PC printer with a serial port to an IBM Power System, System i, i5, iSeries AS/400, System/3X, or 53X4 Remote Controller  with a standard Twinax (or balun) connection, or to a 3270-type mainframe host or 3174 type controller with a standard coax (or balun) connection.

• Setup is quick and easy via the mouse-supported PC setup software, through Host/PC download commands, and on-board DIP switches.

• Comes with built-in intelligent printer sharing capabilities, allowing the attached printer to be automatically shared between Twinax/Coax and PC/LAN users at no extra cost.

• Comes with the industry's best 3812-1, 4214, 5224/25/56 Twinax and 3812-1, 4214, 4224, 4234, 3287/68/62 coax printer emulations (all non-IPDS).

• Supports multiple fonts, duplex printing (Twinax only), Automatic Print Orientation, Computer Output Reduction, and other features. APF/ BGU printing is available across all IBM matrix printer emulations (Twinax).

• Comes with drivers for a wide variety of popular PC printers including Hewlett-Packard PCL-type laser, Epson and IBM dot-matrix printers. In addition, laser printers can be driven as IBM 5225 line printers.

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Click here for more information on Twinax and Coax Interfaces

If you are only using a Matrix printer and DO NOT need integrated printer sharing, please click on the link here for information on the more economical PrintBox TXS/CxP Lite.

IBM Features:

Twinax AS/400

• Attaches to IBM Power System, System i, i5, iSeries AS/400 or System/3X Hosts, or 5X94 Controllers via Twinax attachment

• Supports IBM 3812-1 (SCS), 4214, 5224/25/56 Printer Emulations

• APO and COR

• Supports duplex selection of OS/400 beginning with V2R3 and OfficeVision/400

• Supports Multiple Fonts via IBM Typestyle Numbers
  

Coax 3270

• Attaches to IBM System z, zSeries, 30XX, 43XX, or 937X Host, or 3x74 or 3276 Controller

• IBM 3812-1, 4224, 4214, 3287/68/62 Printer Emulations (all non-IPDS)

• LU3 (DSC) and LU1 (SCS) Mode Printing

• APO and COR for laser printers

• Supports All Applicable IBM RPQs