Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr!tektronix!psueea!parsely!bucket!leonard
From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: "pc-compatible" printers
Keywords: Epson, Panasonic, printer
Message-ID: <1490@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 89 03:50:53 GMT
References: <2512@lll-lcc.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <2512@lll-lcc.UUCP> rzh@lll-lcc.UUCP (Roger Hanscom) writes:
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<  What is the current wisdom of the net on "pc-compatible"
<printers?  I'm about to buy one, and it looks like dot-matrix
<is it (laser printers seem too expensive for my hobby!).  Any
<great advantage of 24-pin over 9-pin?  I've been eyeing the
<Epson LQ series (500 maybe) or Panasonic (1124?).  Any comments
<on these specific devices??

Well, graphics can be a problem. Unless the program has a driver
for the LQ series printers, your graphics will get "stretched".
A page of graphics on an FX printer is about 12-13 inches on an LQ.

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