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From: harlock@netcom.UUCP (Mike Harlock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Printer: OKIMATE 20
Message-ID: <22483@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 91 05:43:23 GMT
References: <3605@lulea.telesoft.se>
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In article <3605@lulea.telesoft.se>, hakanl@lulea.telesoft.se (H}kan Lennest}l) writes:
> The OKIMATE 20 is supposed to be a cheap (100-150 pound) printer capable of
> producing very good color printouts.
> Has anyone seen it in real life ?


   I just bought one here on the net a few days ago.   It's INCREDIBLE.  
It has paint-jet quality output in color and BW, due to the fact that it
uses a thermal print head and thermal heat transfer wax ribbons for printing.
It's also small, about half the size and the same highth of a medium-sized
toshiba laptop computer.   
   Also, being a heat-wax thermal transfer printer, anything you print out
can be iorned on to a t-shirt.  Hee.  extra income.  Only problem is the
t-shirt has to be washed on cold and drip-dried to keep the design in tact.
  This printer is great for graphics, and mediocre for text, but could be 
nicer with text depending on the driver.   You need a special plug'n'print
module for each different kind of computer.  (apple II, Mac, IBM, Amiga, ST,
etc.)  I am using it on an Amiga 500 with the standard Okimate 20 driver that
comes on the extras disk, and it performs like a charm.  I'm already doing
flyers and schedules for a local club like I used to with my Imagewriter II,
when I had one.
definantly a printer worth getting for inexpensive high quality color
graphic output.
--harlock@netcom.UUCP