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From: BVAUGHAN@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Diconix/Kodak Laptop Printer
Message-ID: <11852@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 10 Oct 90 17:46:20 GMT
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In article <14480@netcom.UUCP>, ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:

>In <15615@csli.Stanford.EDU> poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser) writes:
>
>>In article <4399@trantor.harris-atd.com> dlang@su19f.harris-atd.com (David Langhorne) writes:
>>>Saw an ad in the Computer Shopper for one of these ink jet printers for
>>>$199.  Do any of you net.laptop.users have experience with one of these
>>>printers?

>>I have a Kodak Diconix 150 Plus Printer, which may be the same one
>>you are asking about.

>As David says, it's a good value.  My main complaint is that
>single-sheet printing is a pain:  if I'd known the Bubble-Jet would
>soon be down to $350, I'd've spent the extra $100 for the sheet
>feeder.

The Hewlett-Packard Thinkjet printer is very similar to the Diconix and
uses the same paper and ink cartridges.  I have had mine for two years
and have been very satisfied with it.  I first saw one at a conference in
China, where a colleague had brought one to a conference.  She sometimes
had to replace cartridges that weren't empty; she thought maybe it had
problems because of pressurization and depressurization in airplane cargo
holds.  She always carried a few extra cartridges on trips because of
this.  I've never had a problem, but I mostly use it at home; it takes
up very little room on a desk and is so quiet that the rest of my family
can sleep through my late-night printing sessions.  I prefer to use plain
paper and the cartridges made for plain paper.  The printing is a little
lighter than on the special coated paper with the regular cartridges, but
I don't like the look and feel of the coated paper.  I rarely have a
smudging problem if I change the little blotter whenever I change a cart-
ridge.  I usually print a few throwaway pages with a new cartridge before
printing a long report or something.  The one thing I don't like is that
the page feed and line feed work by button switches instead of a knob and
you can't roll it backwards.  If the print is starting a line too low
from the top, you have to either linefeed to the next page and hope you
stop at the right spot or reinsert the paper.  I'm sure the absence of
a knob was intended to save space, but that's the one thing that I find
annoying.

Barbara Vaughan