Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site steinmetz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!edison!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (Davidsen) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Heavy-duty dot-matrix printer recommendations requested Message-ID: <294@steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 11:14:26 EDT Article-I.D.: steinmet.294 Posted: Thu Oct 24 11:14:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 20:06:17 EDT References: <2124@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen) Organization: GE CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 23 Summary: A number of us at GE have been using Tally printers (160L) for several years. We got them for the following reasons: [1] we couldn't get Epsons, [2] they speak both serail and parallel, a bonus in a group wich does software support for both Rainbows and IBM's, [3] the only switch to set is the power switch. The infant mortality has been rather high, although all were fixed in a few weeks under warantee. After infant mortality, no failures in several years. There are at least eight of these around now. The ribbon life is about fairly independent of the use, and they tend to dry out every ten weeks or so even if lightly used. They also last that long in fairly heavy usage. The near letter quality is good enough to use for almost anything, including a resume. There is also a new Cannon "Epson clone" out, cost about $299 in this area. It's too early to tell about reliability, but they are rated at 100% duty cycle, and one of the local stores has put a few boxes of paper thru one without problems. That constitutes a lot of months use for most people. The head design is massive, with more fins than a shark. -- billD (..seismo!rochester!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen) (davidsen@GE-CRD.ARPA) "It seemed like a good idea at the time..."