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From: oovvoo@mixcom.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
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Subject: Re: A3000UX competition
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Date: 19 Dec 90 14:04:51 GMT
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daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>A more obvious one might be the character set.  The Amiga uses ISO characters,
>but 1/2 the printers out there use Epson or IBM characters, which are a defacto
>industry standard which works OK in the US, though perhaps not as well world
>wide.  .  .

I remember the first time I borrowed the DeskJet printer we had just bought
at work, and in the process of configuring it for my Amiga (it was set up
for the PC at work, of course ... ), I discovered that the DeskJet actually
*SUPPORTED* the ISO font, if you set the switches right.  I was impressed by
that (along with the beautiful print quality, of course), and am planning on
getting a DeskJet 500 right after the holidays (unless HP comes out with the
DeskJet 1000 XL before then!)

>-- 
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
>		"I can't drive 55"	-Sammy Hagar
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  - Mike Shawaluk            | If you turn it over, but don't let go,
	oovvoo@mixcom.UUCP         |  you will be upside down.