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Subject: Imagewriter compatible printers
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Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 00:49:53 EDT
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From: Allan Weber 
Has anyone had any experience with Imagewriter compatible printers
from other manufacturers?  An ad in Byte lists an Imagewriter upgrade
for Epson printers and an Imagewriter compatible Okidata printer.  I
called the company and was told that the Epson upgrade consists of a
serial-to-parallel converter board that plugs into the Epson and
translates the Imagewriter print codes into something the Epson
understands.  They said that the Okidata model was not an upgrade but
rather a standard Okidata printer with built-in Macintosh
compatibility.

I would be interested in hearing from anyone that has had any
experience with either of these printers.  How do they compare to the
Imagewriter in terms of print quality and speed?  Is it 100%
compatible or are there things that it can not do?  How is the
reliability?  A friend told me that someone from Apple or one of their
dealers was recently passing around a rumor that other printer
manufacturers had tried to make a Imagewriter compatible version but
that the printheads burned up after a few hours of use.

Thanks.

					Allan Weber
					Weber@USC-ECLC
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