Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!dasys1!tbetz From: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Heavy Duty Printers Summary: Oki 2410 = Damn good! Keywords: Printer Labels Message-ID: <5607@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 17 Jul 88 08:53:45 GMT References: <10359@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <244@pigs.UUCP> <188@tscs.UUCP> Reply-To: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) Organization: Zen Community of New York Lines: 57 In article <188@tscs.UUCP> gerard@tscs.UUCP (Stephen M. Gerard) writes: >In article <244@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes: >>In article <10359@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bkliewer@iuvax.UUCP (Bradley Dyck Kliewer) writes: >>>I remember seeing a review of a printer which had a wide carriage and >>>3 or 4 heads. It was built for churning out long jobs. Does anybody >> >>the best printer, of the dot matrix variety, i've ever seen is the >>okidata 2410. it is, in fact, the only okidata printer i've ever >>seen which is worth a d*mn. > >The Okidata 2410 is the best dot matrix printer that we have used/sold. The >print quality is good, and mechanically it is built like a tank. As one who has used a 2410 for several years in pretty haevy use and less than optimum conditions, I will concur with the general sentiment. I do wish, how- ever, that we had bought the 2350 variant instead for two reasons: bottom-feed slot (so I would feel safe about printing labels - I do not recommend using a 2410 to print labels, as the paper path is conducive to labels peeling off their carriers and jamming under the platen roller - the 2350 would have no problem with this, and shares the 2410's design and solidity) and extended character set. I recently had to replace (about a month or two apart) the two Sheet Feeder Covers that clamp down over the pin feed and hold the paper in place.. they just wore out from being opened and closed so many times over 3 years. Fortunately, they are identical to the same part on the Okidata u84, a tractor feed for which we wore out about 4 years ago and had replaced, and I had held on to it in my typical packrat manner, so I was able to swap them over to the 2410 pretty easily. The only other service (outside of cleaning/lube type stuff) has been replace- ment of the ribbon advance gears, which were just worn out from heavy use, and cost us relatively little. I would also recommend the Oki u84. We have one each of the standard and IBM Graphics versions. Oki recently sold out its warehouse stock of the IBM version, and we were able to pick one up at fire-sale prices... $250 for a $900 printer. Our original 84 is still working every day, after five or six years of heavy abuse. It's been here longer than I have. It has requred more service than the 2410, including a print head replacement, but it has needed no service in the last two years (though it will be due for another print head by the end of this year). Interesting that these machines have been discontinued. I can not vouch for any of the current product line, but fruit does not fall far from the tree. . > -- "Through practice, I have become one of the |Tom Betz better liars in the English language. |ZCNY, Yonkers, NY 10701-2509 I wouldn't say it if I didn't know it wasn't true" |UUCP: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP or - Emmanuel Transmission - | ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tbetz