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From: BILLW@Sri-Kl.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Cheap ink jet printer from HP
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Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 14:18:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  6 14:18:00 1984
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I have a ThinkJet.  Its a pretty nice little printer.  Available with
several different interfaces: HPIB, HPIL, and Parallel.  The HPIL version
is battery powered.  Do the ink cartridges really cost $13?  That seems
to be quite a bit for only 500 pages...

Anyway...  The print quality is pretty good, but I wouldnt call it
"near letter quality", and you need to use special (absorbent) ink
jet paper - although "any paper may be used", the print quality is
noticabley lower when printing on normal paper.  it IS quiet!

The thinkjet does raster graphics, rather than the more popular
column at a time graphics.  This makes it easier to program for
graphics output (in my opinion, anyway...)

The character set includes some of the HP math symbols, printing
modes include bold and various expanded fonts, but no italics.

BillW