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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need Recommendation for Line Printer
Message-ID: <555@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 88 01:08:59 GMT
References: <274@amanue.UUCP>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <274@amanue.UUCP>, jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes:
> I need to buy a line printer for a machine which will initially have n......
> 
> Please mail me any recommendations -- or stay-away-from experiences, and I
> will post a summary.  Thanks in advance.

  While many of the Japanese printers are well-made and produce good output,
  I have decided to stay away from them.  Why ?  Because my own experience
  (and that of various users on the net) is that after-sale support from the
  vendors tends to be very poor.  The telephone numbers published in the
  printer manuals are either impossible or very difficult to get through.
  Perhaps others may have better experiences that they could report.

  - Lest this be interpreted as jingoism, I want to say that I am aware that
    US offices are largely semi-separate operations run by us (as in U.S.)
    citizens/residents.

   greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny