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From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
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Subject: Re: C64 Manual****Saving Files
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Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 03:29:48 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 23 03:29:48 1987
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in article <10209@orchid.waterloo.edu>, cgwong@orchid.waterloo.edu (Clint Wong) says:
>>3. I am presently in the market for a dot matrix printer. Keeping in
>>   mind that I may want to some day in the distant future upgrade to
>>   an, excuse the expression, IBM compatible, are there any Ideas?
> I would highly recommend buying a non-Commodore parallel printer and an
> interface.

Note that the Commodore MPS1000 is an Epson Homewriter in another case, with
both parallel and Commodore interfaces (the big "EPSON" on the printhead gives
it away!). The MPS1200 is similiarly another printer re-packaged by Commodore,
tho I don't know whose. They are both a bit pricy considering what you get,
but they do work. 

I recently got a Star NX10 and a Xetec Supergraphics interface from Lyco
Computer. The whole package, complete with shipping, costed $230 or so. I am
quite satisfied. The NX10 seems to be completely Epson FX80 compatible, not to
mention having lots of its own features that some programs can take advantage
of (e.g., quad-density graphics mode -- I use the Gary Label Maker to print
out beautiful mailing labels, consisting of a Print Shop graphic, and text in
various fonts). NLQ is readable, although more "near" than "letter quality".
All in all, a pretty good buy -- and I love Star's tractor-feed design, which
lets you roll the paper both forward and backward (which I used when
re-writing the super/subscript code in my word processor's device driver --
otherwise, super/subscripts weren't in NLQ).
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