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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: Stylewriter / Deskwriter
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Date: 20 Mar 91 01:04:44 GMT
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In article <2482@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> kpottie@icarus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Pottie Karl) writes:
>Could anybody make an elaborate comparison between the Stylewriter
>and the Deskwriter ? If printing speed and price were the same,
>which machine would you prefer and why ?

Well, those are unreasonable constraints.  The main drawback of the
Stylewriter is speed.  The DeskWriter is claimed to be twice as fast, but
it has lower resolution and is a lot bigger.  I'd buy the Stylewriter
under those constraints.

>Does the stylewriter use 'normal' photocopy paper ?
It uses normal paper-- I don't know if photocopy paper is the best sort, but
its paper preference shouldn't bee too different from the deskwriter.

>Some people said the stylewriter makes horizontal 'bands', like a
>matrixprinter does when printing large black areas. Is this bad ? I'm
>pretty sure the deskwriter doesn't do this, so I guess deskwriter output
>must be better ?

I don't see any on the sample I have, but the largest black areas it has is
about 18 point Times Bold printing.



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