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From: dtiberio@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Re: STAR LC24-200/Citizen GX-140 Printers
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Date: 15 Apr 91 17:42:24 GMT
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In article <7342@munnari.oz.au> sanford@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Sanfybabes) writes:
>
>	I'm planning to get a 24 pin printer, and at the moment, I'm in
>two minds as to whether to get a STAR LC24-200, or a Citizen GX-140 (I think).
>Has anyone had any experience with either of these printers, and any comments?
>	Also, I have noticed that the color from the GX-140 seems a bit dull;
>Is this totally due to worn printer ribbons and paper type, or is it a general
>limitation of dot matrix printers?
>				Thanks in advance.	
>					S.Tong

  My A3000 is connected to a Citizen GX-140 24 pin color printer. It
can connect to the seriel or parallel port. The 8 primary colors,
red, blue, green, white, black, yellow, purple, etc. have a very high
quality print. However, all other colors are mixed with dithering and
look terrible. By primary colors, I mean setting the RGBs to max and min,
and no where in between. It does have an excellent NLQ mode, which should
be expected by 24 pin printers (I think it is 360 dpi). I ran a color
test with DPIII and found that the halfbrights matched okay, but still
since the colors were dithered you can see each pixel. Also, when
printing from DPaintIII, use a solid white as the background. Otherwise 
it will try to draw whatever the background color is.

  If you do get either and need help setting up the options, let me
know. You can set macros too if you want.


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