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From: lnk10562@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Seikosha Printer
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Date: 10 Mar 90 10:32:18 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!lnk10562    Mar  9 14:09:00 1990


I own a Seikosha 1000AP as well, and it's done a very good job for me.
Yes, the Mac sees it as a normal Imagewriter I, it even does reverse page
feeds and the like.  Ribbons are cheap, the only advantage you don't have
with this printer is speed.  Imagewriters are a little faster on bitmaps,
and a lot faster on word processed text and draft mode.  It does have a
fairly decent LQ draft mode, which is nice for program listings. One thing
that is interesting about the 1000AP (LISTEN UP GUYS), is that you can stick in
an 8K RAM chip (available at most Radio Shacks) and increase the buffer size.
Wish I had the part number and DIP socket location, I would have posted it.
Maybe later on.  Anyway, it's a hell of a deal, they seem to be in demand as
well (had to wait 12 weeks via mail order to get mine).
 
Louis Koziarz
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
koziarz@uiuc.edu