Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!mmdf From: blgardne%esunix.uucp@cunyvm.cuny.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Cheap colour printer Message-ID: <4508@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 4 Oct 88 07:01:17 GMT Sender: usenet@udel.EDU Lines: 61 Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 7635; Tue, 04 Oct 88 02:39:00 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Tue, 04 Oct 88 02:38:56 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id ac15008; 3 Oct 88 20:49 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa14802; 3 Oct 88 20:39 EDT From: Blaine Gardner Subject: Re: Cheap colour printer Message-ID: <988@esunix.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 88 20:47:13 GMT Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU From article <7291@gryphon.CTS.COM>, by richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton): > [Tandy colour printer info deleted] > > Didn't sound like a commercial to me. I've never heard of the thing. Is it > a Tandy engine, or a Canon clone, like the Quadram. It's the Canon PJ-1080A with a different sticker on the front. There may be some difference in the ROM (as with the Quadram), but its the same basic printer, and the ink packs are interchangable. The same printer was also OEMed by IBM. The IBM version was the subject of a big closeout promotion in Computer Shopper last year for $200. This was at the same time that Radio Shack was closing out their version for $200 also. (Me? I bought a used Canon for about $50.) It seems that Canon dropped the PJ-1080A at just the wrong time, since the Amiga stirred up a market for cheap color printers. I've heard a rumor that they were putting it back into production, any truth there? I've also heard that someone was selling an improved ROM for the Canon that changed the horrible font it comes with into something usable. If anyone knows where to find this upgrade, please let me know. > Care to comment on the ink colour quality ? Is red RED like the Tektronix, > orange like the HP and the Canon, or a tad on the cyan side like the Xerox ? The colors aren't anything to get too excited over. Since it is the Canon under the skin, it shares the same purplish blue, and the orange reds. > How about blue ? Is it greenish, purpleish, or BLUE ? > > Can you still buy these things in Radio Shacks ? I don't think so, and the ink packs seem to be a special order item now. I've been told that only the Radio Shack Computer Centers can even order the ink packs. However, Radio Shack still seems to be the best source for them. My only interest here is improving the performance of a useful peripherial my Amiga owns. -- Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108 UUCP Addresses: {ucbvax,allegra,decvax}!decwrl!esunix!blgardne utah-cs!esunix!blgardne usna!esunix!blgardne "Nobody will ever need more than 64K." "Nobody needs multitasking on a PC."