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From: amatthews@zodiac.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: re: STAR LC24-200/Citizen GX-140 Printers
Message-ID: <792.28086db0@zodiac.rutgers.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 91 14:56:47 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University Computing Services
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I have a GSX 140, and I've been quite pleased with it.  I've found
the color printing to be as nice or nicer than any other printer, however
you have to play around with preferences and the pic itself to get
the best results.  If you can find a program that outputs [bitmapped?]
fonts, like pagestream, you can get almost laser quality printouts, but
this is rather slow.  The only gripe I have with the GSX 140 is that it
does tend to go through ribbons very quickly, but I order them from
Mid-West micro for $2.55 a piece, so it's not a major expence.  Oh, one 
more thing... If you do decide to buy the GSX 140, be sure to order
generic black ribbons from Mid-West Micro -- all the other ribbons I
ever purchsed seemed dried out.  Oh yeah, be sure you don't set 
preferences to a setting where the printhead passes twice when printing
in color, it'll ruin the color ribbon (expensive).  
	One other problem (just thought of it) is that except for
a few custom drivers (eg., pagestream), you can't get full
360X360 dpi graphics.  The driver included in workbench is called
EpsonQ, there is a better one floating on the nets called EpsonQplus.
Hopefully, if this printer becomes popular enough (it should), someone
will write a driver specifically for this printer.  If I have any
time this summer, I'll may write it myself.