<s>
IBM	B-Device
2245	I-Device
Kanji	O
Printer	O
(	O
)	O
was	O
the	O
line	O
printer	O
of	O
the	O
IBM	O
Kanji	O
System	O
,	O
announced	O
in	O
1971	O
,	O
that	O
allowed	O
printing	O
of	O
Japanese	O
text	O
on	O
IBM	B-Application
System/360	I-Application
and	O
System/370	B-Device
mainframe	O
computers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
new	O
technical	O
approach	O
gave	O
the	O
so-called	O
Double-Byte	B-Application
Character	I-Application
Set	I-Application
languages	O
of	O
Japanese	O
,	O
Korean	O
and	O
Chinese	O
languages	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
be	O
processed	O
by	O
the	O
computer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
IBM	B-Device
2245	I-Device
Kanji	O
Printer	O
was	O
a	O
line	O
printer	O
on	O
the	O
system	O
side	O
that	O
connected	O
to	O
System/360	B-Application
or	O
System/370	B-Device
via	O
the	O
multiplexer	O
channel	O
,	O
block	O
multiplexer	O
channel	O
or	O
selector	O
channel	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
printer	O
basically	O
used	O
the	O
dot	O
matrix	O
impact	O
printing	O
mechanism	O
,	O
already	O
employed	O
in	O
the	O
IBM	O
2560	O
Multi-Function	O
Card	O
Machine	O
that	O
attached	O
to	O
IBM	B-Device
System/360	I-Device
Model	I-Device
20	I-Device
and	O
later	O
to	O
IBM	B-Device
System/3	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
IBM	B-Device
2245	I-Device
was	O
developed	O
at	O
IBM	O
Endicott	O
with	O
participation	O
of	O
two	O
or	O
three	O
engineers	O
from	O
IBM	O
Fujisawa	O
,	O
and	O
manufactured	O
in	O
Endicott	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
the	O
IBM	B-Device
2245	I-Device
Kanji	O
Print	O
could	O
be	O
used	O
in	O
a	O
wide	O
range	O
of	O
applications	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
mainly	O
used	O
to	O
print	O
the	O
names	O
and	O
addresses	O
in	O
corporate	O
correspondence	O
,	O
because	O
the	O
printing	O
span	O
(	O
horizontal	O
width	O
)	O
was	O
relatively	O
narrow	O
.	O
</s>
