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From: roy@bonnie.ics.uci.edu ( John Roy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Imagewriter clones
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Date: 3 Jan 89 19:36:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: kcr%rushforth@Sun.COM (Kevin Rushforth)

In article <83425@sun.uucp>, kcr%rushforth (Kevin Rushforth) writes:
>In article <15226@mimsy.UUCP>, spector@brillig.umd.edu (Lee Spector) writes:
>> Does anybody know much about the Olympia or Seikosha Imagewriter
>> clones?  They seem to be pretty cheap and are alleged to run 
>> just like an Imagewriter off the Imagewriter driver.  Is it true?
>> Are they a good deal? 
>
>I am also interested in this.  Does anyone know where to find these
>printers in the Bay Area?  None of the MAC shops I went to even hinted
>at the existence of a cheap Imagewriter clone (and yes, I asked).
>
I got my Seikosha from a mail order place (advert in MacWorld), I think it was 
Icon Review.  It cost about $230 and works just like an Imagewriter.  I like
mine and have had no problems at all.


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