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From: dmimi@ecsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Need info fast on Diablo, NEC, and other heavy-duty LQ printers
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 09:57:14 EST
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> In article <1630@brl-tgr.ARPA> LBAFRIN%clemson.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa writes:
> >Howdy, fellow netlandians.  I need some quick feedback from the field on
> >the performance (speed- and print-quality-wise), *reliability*, and
> >expected maintenance costs for *heavy-duty* letter quality printers, the
> >kind you would have *no* qualms about using to handle the printing of
> 
(The Starwriter and NEC Spinwriter series were used) 
> (I think the 3500 series is obsolete
> now, with a 5500 and 7700 series current.)  
>
The 7700 Spinwriter series replaced the 5500 series.  I'm not sure what
has happened to the 350 series.
 
> The first two digits are the rated char per second value, and they are
> reasonably accurate.  The 128 char print thimbles are nice if your 
> system needs/wants a full ASCII capability + word processing symbols
> (cent, degree, trademark, copyright, etc. symbols).  The multilingual
> sequence thimbles contain both sets on the same thimble.

I've used a 7715 (NEC) for several years, although not as heavily.  It has
never required servicing, nor missed a beat.  Nor has it beat up the thimbles
except once when I put it in badly.

> Both printers get used 6 - 14 hours per day.