Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!geraldo.Central.Sun.COM!male!jethro!exodus!appserv!sun!amdcad!dgcad!dg-rtp!ramona!andrew From: andrew@ramona.Cary.NC.US (Andrew Ernest) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Why new Epson LQ510 Print Worse? Summary: we must have gotten a good one Message-ID: <1991Jun2.214655.103512@ramona.Cary.NC.US> Date: 2 Jun 91 21:46:55 GMT References: <1991May31.175051.9332@uwovax.uwo.ca> Lines: 16 In article <1991May31.175051.9332@uwovax.uwo.ca> singer@uwovax.uwo.ca writes: [ about problems with new Epson LQ-510 ] Bizarre. I recently bought a 510 for my mom and we thought it was GREAT (well, we still do). Did you try using the same ribbon in both printers (the 500 and the 510)? Same results? You sure you weren't using a ribbon intended for a 9-pin printer? Just grasping for possibilities; I'm not trying to discredit you. I suppose there may have been a bad lot of printheads for the 510. We're lucky we got a good one, if that's the case. In fact, I was "jealous" that the 510 was better than my 3-year-old, industrial-strength LQ-1050, both in terms of print quality and design (ease of changing ribbon, loading paper, tearing off paper, built-in fonts, etc). -- Andrew Ernest