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From: ericb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Eric Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Printers
Message-ID: <17640@mango.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 90 21:32:08 GMT
References: <28eZ022c84EN01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: ericb@Atherton.COM (Eric Black)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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>In article <28eZ022c84EN01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) writes:
>I am looking at purchasing one of the following printers.
>
>    Epson LQ-510
>    Okidata Microline 390
>    Panasonic KX-P1124
>
>They are all 24 pin dot-matrix printers. They have a graphics resolution
>of 360x360.
>
>Does anyone have any expirence with these printers?

I have had a KX-P1124 for nearly a year now (well, 9 months anyway),
and am quite pleased with it.  I bought it for $355 at the West Coast
Computer Faire shortly after it first became available and was back-ordered
everywhere.  It is now fairly ubiquitous, and generally available for
around $300, even less at some mail order places.  I was impressed by
the degree to which [I think it was Dave Haynie, but now I can't remember
for sure] at CBM was impressed by it.

The paper parking feature is nice, and the drop-down front door makes
it easy to feed in single sheets (once the continuous-form paper has
been parked out of the way).  Envelopes don't go through very straight,
though, so I gave up on that, but single sheets of letterhead work great.

Use the NEC Pinwriter driver (maybe this should be in the Commonly Asked
Questions?).

I saw that someone else recommended the P2200; my opinion of that model
was that it was too much plastic, didn't look like it would hold up to
the usage that I have given the 1124.

Of the four (the three you mentioned and the P2200), not only is the
1124 the more convenient-to-use and possibly "better made", I believe
just now it may be the cheapest if you look around.

-- 
Eric Black	"Garbage in, Gospel out"
Atherton Technology, 1333 Bordeaux Dr., Sunnyvale, CA, 94089
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