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From: mdperry@boulder.colorado.edu (Marc D. Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Ink-jet printers (REPOSTING?)
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Date: 5 Oct 90 16:09:12 GMT
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THIS MAY BE A RE-POSTING, I NEVER SAW THE ORIGINAL POSTED ON MY
NEWSREADER.

I bought a Tandy 1000 TX a few months back when they were priced to
clear; now I am hunting around for a low-cost printer.  Seems like a
bottom-of-the-line 9-pin dot-matrix printer goes for about $150 new.

A friend of mine is selling his used HP Ink-jet printer for about the
same price.  He bought it about 5 years ago when it was hot and new.

Question 1: What are the advantages and disadvantages of Ink-jet
printers?  I have used LaserJet, dot-matrix, and daisy-wheel printers
in the past, but know next to nothing about ink-jets.

Question 2: He is running it off of an original IBM-PC.  Will I
require any additional software or hardware to run it off my Tandy
286 (besides a word processor)?

Thanks,
mdp





Marc D. Perry                               (303) 492 8258                     
MCD Biology, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347         
internet: mdperry@boulder.colorado.edu