Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!indetech!pacbell!premenos!premenos!phr From: phr@premenos.premenos.COM (Paul Rubin) Subject: Re: Printers for T1000SE ??? In-Reply-To: maybe@igloo.scum.com's message of 2 May 90 23:33:02 GMT Message-ID: Sender: phr@acsdev.uucp (Paul Rubin) Organization: Premenos Corp. References: <9203@sybase.sybase.com> <15549@vlsisj.VLSI.COM> <2345@igloo.scum.com> Date: 5 May 90 16:06:20 In article <2345@igloo.scum.com> maybe@igloo.scum.com (Jordan Gottlieb) writes: I have seen one laptop printer other than the Diconix and that is the Toshiba 301 (or something like that). It is slower than the Diconix, but print is much nicher. Instead of inkjet, it is thermal transfer. NOTE: You don't need thermal paper... Heat is used to put the ink on the paper. The quality is excellent and it is silent. It is about the same price as the diconix but is slightly taller. It runs on batteries as well. It is a tought choice between the two! You mean the Toshiba Expresswriter 301. It is somewhat more expensive than the Diconix (discounted), considerably bulkier, and 3 times as slow as the Diconix in draft mode. (In letter quality mode, it is still somewhat slower. The Toshiba has no draft mode). Although the print quality is a bit nicer (I would not say "much nicer"), its thermal printing process involves melting some kind of opaque wax onto the paper that then flakes off. I looked at one of these when I was shopping for a printer and decided the Diconix won hands down.