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From: raymond@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (R P Wilson )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: StyleWriter/DeskWriter - Which to buy?
Message-ID: <1991May21.214337.794@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 21 May 91 09:43:36 GMT
Organization: Computer Science,University of Canterbury,New Zealand
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I wish to purchase a printer and have narrowed the choices down to a 
StyleWriter and a DeskWriter. With HPs reduction in the price of the
DeskWriter to a level similar to that of the StyleWriter the choice
is not so simple now.

Given equivalent cost for these machines which would be the better one to buy?

Is 360 dpi look much different from 300?
Just how much faster is the Deskwriter?
How do their useful lifetimes compare?
With the paper tray etc on the StyleWriter how much smaller is it than the
DeskWriter (which has these things 'built in')?

Thanks for any help,

			Raymond.

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Raymond Wilson.	email:	raymond@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
		snail:	c/- Computer Science Department,
			University of Canterbury,
			New Zealand.