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From: Star-Raider@cup.portal.com (Jack Wahoo Pettrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Epson LQ850
Message-ID: <15427@cup.portal.com>
Date: 5 Mar 89 20:13:01 GMT
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I've got an Epson LQ850 in my office and an Epson LQ500 in my office.  Both
are excellent 24 pin printers that truly give NLQ copy.  Not sure why you'd
want to spend the extra $200 or so to get the 850, tho.  Having both, I can
tell you that the only principle differences are that the 850 has a push
tractor feed i/o a pull, which theoretically saves that extra sheet you lose
each time ya print, but the first sheet is usually so twisted from being in 
the printer you toss it anyway.  Other improvement of the 850 is better
controls from the console, but that can be overcome by setting options from
your word-processor and forgetting the console altogether.

In any event, both are excellent printers as well as being the industry 
standard.  As they say, "Nobody ever got fired from buying an IBM -- or an
Epson printer."