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From: bright@dataioDataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Letter quality printers?
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Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 13:13:49 EST
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In article <10800017@uiucdcsp> railey@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
>Has anyone knowledge (first-hand or secod-hand) of letter quality
>printers such as the Juki 6100s or the Brother HR-15xl?  I'm on the
>market for one such printer, and would appreciate any advice or
>other suggestions.

I have been using a Diablo 630 for years and am very pleased with it.
I have seen some cheap letter quality ones, and the problems are:
	o Bold face and double strike really shows up problems with
	  the accuracy of the carriage. They frequently come out as
	  double-images. Really gross!
	o The text lines are frequently not parallel!
The Diablo exhibits none of these problems.
If you're not willing to pay the bucks for a real letter quality printer,
I'd stick with dot-matrix.