Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ISM780.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!cca!ISM780!gary From: gary@ISM780.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Cheap LQ printer wanted Message-ID: <30300001@ISM780.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 13:11:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ISM780.30300001 Posted: Thu Aug 29 13:11:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 31-Aug-85 21:40:51 EDT References: <977@brl-tgr.UUCP> Lines: 51 Nf-ID: #R:brl-tgr:-97700:ISM780:30300001:000:2409 Nf-From: ISM780!gary Aug 29 13:11:00 1985 -------- I would highly recommend a Citizen MSP-10 or MSP-20, made by the Citizen watch people, and which are fairly new to the market (I believe the 10 went on sale last November and the 20 came out about March). The Citizens are have a lot of features, including a fast "lineprinter" mode and a slower correspondance quality mode; they are extemely quiet, IBM or Epson compatible, and come with an 18 month warranty. These are dot matrix printers, but the resolution in correspondance quality mode is so tight that people can't believe the text was made by a dot matrix printer; in fact "lineprinter" mode type looks real good as well. They are also capable of printing in a lot of fonts, including expanded (extra wide), "emphasized", double-strike and combinations of those (the 20 has more fonts available than the 10 -- see below), and they have some graphics capabilities. The MSP-10 and 20 is are 80-column wide printers; there are also an 132-column models, the MSP-15 and MSP-25. About 6 months ago I saw 10's advertized for $360 and the 20's (brand new at the time) for $450. You can probably beat those prices now. For inquiries: Citizen America Corp., 2425 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, Ca. 90404 (800) 441 23455 Differences between the MSP-10 and MSP-20 according to the spec. sheets: MSP-10 MSP-20 ------ ------ 160 cps 200 cps Print speed 40 cps 50 cps Correspondence quality speed 2 ips 1.8 ips Paper advance speed 1K 8K Standard input data buffer 8K 64K Optional input data buffer 18x9 17x17 Double-strike print matix In addition, the MSP-20 has: 1. Proportional spacing 2. 256 downloadable characters ("for international communications capability") 3. Elite compressed and compressed/expanded characters, in addition to the regular Elite and Elite expanded chars which the MSP-10 has as well. 4. Vertical expanded print (X2) I haven't heard *anything* bad about the Citizens, and I'm thinking about getting an MSP-20 myself. If anyone has some caveats, please post or send them to me. These are my own opions and I have no relationship to Citizen America. Gary Swift, INTERACTIVE Systems Corp., Santa Monica, Ca., (213) 453 8649 {decvax!cca | yale | bbncca | allegra | cbosgd | ihnp4}!ima!ism780!gary