| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 3706.1 | panasonic 1124 | CSC32::K_APPLEMAN | | Mon Apr 23 1990 14:57 | 17 |
| Since I have no experience with the other printers on your list, I will
only give my experiences with the Panasonic KP-1124.
I have had mine for about 1 year now and love it. Not a single
problem.
I especially like the auto-load and backoff functions. I use both
fanfold and single sheet quite frequently and the Panasonic makes it
very easy to backoff the fanfold and run a single sheet of letter head
through the front. The dual feed option (either feed from the back or
bottom) is nice too. Selection of any font/pitch/line pitch can be
selected easily from the front panel or under program control. I
usually use the front panel as it is much easier to do than to read the
software manuals of the program I'm using to see how to insert printer
variables in the text.
Ken
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| 3706.2 | | SUBURB::MCDONALDA | Old Elysian with a big D.I.C. | Tue Apr 24 1990 13:48 | 5 |
| Ken,
Which driver do you use, and does it produce graphics?
Angus
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| 3706.3 | EpsonQ Driver | CSC32::K_APPLEMAN | | Tue Apr 24 1990 17:04 | 8 |
| Angus,
I use the EpsonQ driver. The panasonic emulates either the Epson
LQ command set or the I*M ProPrinter command set. Yes it does do
graphics. I haven't played much with the graphics part, but it seems
to do as good as any other printer.
Ken
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| 3706.4 | Well I did it, went out and bought a Citizen Swift 24 | SUBURB::MCDONALDA | Old Elysian with a big D.I.C. | Wed May 16 1990 06:26 | 33 |
| Well folks, on Friday I parted with hard earned and saved cash and
bought a Citizen Swift 24. It cost me �289.45 inclusive, from Heelas
in Reading. Thier normal price is �345, but I invoked their "Never
knowingly undersold" policy to get this price. The only point of
confusion was that the printer comes with a 2 year manufacturer's
warrenty; the standard is 1 year. I also bought the Amstrad/IBM
Centronics/parallel printer cable and ripped out pin 14 (carries power)
- Heelas sold this to me for �11.75, other places I tried charged
�14.95 and higher.
I must say that I am well and truely gob smacked by the ease with
which I got this printer going. First I copied the EPSONQ printer
driver from the extras disk to my hard disk. Then I simply connected
up the printer and selected Espon emulation mode. I then fired up
Deluxpaint III and printed one of my wife's quilt designs. The
file was printed with absolutely no problems.
Then I fired up Transcript, and printed off an order. Again, no
problems. I then then went through the various built in fonts in
LQ prints. Roman and Courier are the best looking, followed by Sans
and Prestige - but that's just personal preference.
In a couple of months I may be able to afford the colour option
(�40) and may buy a couple of the optional Fonts cartridges that you
can load into the thing. I'll have to try out the NEC P6+ emulation,
'cause it said I could get a print resolution of 360 dpi.
All in all, I am very pleased with this printer, and very very
impressed by the ease with which I got things going. With the colour
option, I will have a 24-pin colour printer for �330; with a host
of built in features - which I have yet to discover.
Angus
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| 3706.5 | not really 360 DPI resolution | SAUTER::SAUTER | John Sauter | Mon May 14 1990 02:31 | 5 |
| At least on the NEC P6, the 360 DPI resolution mode is not what it
sounds like---it's not 120% of a 300 DPI laser printer. The pins
are 1/180th of an inch in diameter, so increasing the resolution
from 180 DPI to 360 DPI produces only a slight increase in quality.
John Sauter
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