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From: ken@slhisc.uucp (Ken Stamm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: StyleWriter/DeskWriter - Which to buy?
Message-ID: <1991May28.134743.6338@slhisc.uucp>
Date: 28 May 91 13:47:43 GMT
References: <1991May21.214337.794@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
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In article <1991May21.214337.794@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> raymond@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (R P Wilson ) writes:
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>I wish to purchase a printer and have narrowed the choices down to a 
>StyleWriter and a DeskWriter

I have both.  I got the stylewriter the day it was introed.
I thought the DeskJet/Deskwriter was a neat design when it came out.
I think the same of the Stylewriter.
360 DPI is barely noticeably better than 300DPI.  I think the type of paper
you use will have a greater impact on print quality than the difference in
resolution. (Use 25% bond paper in either machine)

>Just how much faster is the Deskwriter?

The Stylewriter is admittedly slow.  Depends on what you're printing.

>How do their useful lifetimes compare?

Useful lifetimes???  I'll let you know when either mechanism wears out.
(next century, perhaps)  Your Mac will be obsolete and gone before then.
Actually, if you mean ink capacity I haven't emptied a Stylewriter ink
cartridge yet, so I can't comment on ink life.  I have found both ink
cartridges equally available.  The Cannon BJ-10 mechanism is catching on.

>With the paper tray etc on the StyleWriter how much smaller is it than the
>DeskWriter (which has these things 'built in')?

Quite a bit less footprint.  Bit taller tho.  Much more portable than the
Deskjet.
Good Luck.
-- 
Ken Stamm (uunet.uu.net!slcpi!slhisc!ken) (212)341-3868