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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Printers
Message-ID: <329@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 14:15:24 EST
Article-I.D.: 3comvax.329
Posted: Sun Jan  5 14:15:24 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jan-86 04:09:43 EST
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Reply-To: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Organization: 3Com Corp; Mountain View, CA
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Keywords: printers, star, okimate


I own a Star Micronix Radix-15 printer, which I paid $600 for well over
a year ago.  I do not like Epson products (my opinion) because I don't
like the way the paper feed mechanisms work, so I looked hard for a reasonable
replacement.  The Radix-15 prints both Draft quality and Near Letter Quality
quite nicely.  It has a 16K buffer (enough for about 8 pages), so your
computer has to wait less for the printer to be ready.  It also prints
200 CPS in Draft Mode, but seems to have a much faster through-put due
to fast form feeds, etc.  It takes narrow and wide paper, and has a large
amount of escape sequence controls (above and beyond the EPSON set) to do
things like super and sub scripts, boldface, underline, pica or elite,
reverse form feeds, a couple of fonts, and more.  I have had not a single
complaint about my Radix-15, and have had no mechanical problems despite
using it for several thousand pages of listings, etc.  I think it hasa
sexy package, too, and is state of the art in cheap personal computer printers.

mike schwartz