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From: ijk@hou2a.UUCP (I.KINAL)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: $200 dollar printer bargains for PC's(: any Experience???
Message-ID: <668@hou2a.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 09:10:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 11 09:10:10 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:27:06 EST
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Keywords: Gorilla/Banana($89.50), Silver Reed($199);Olivetti Ink Jet ($199)

Has anyone tried these bargain - basement printers out???  The Silver-Reed
is a daisy-wheel type (a tractor - feed is available for $70);
 the Gorilla/Banana (made by C.ITOH) is a dot matrix; the Olivetti 
uses spark ink-jet technology.  I don't intend to print anything fancy
at home (or even that much), but I suppose graphics capability would be
nice (the Silver-Reed will do limited graphics using periods ).  All
of these machines seem underpriced - the question is, do 'you get what
you pay for???????????????'  I'd be very interested if someone has
had any experience with 1 or more of these machines to give me some comments.

As usual, if I get enough responses, I'll summarize.
Thanx.

Ihor Kinal
{hou2a | hru3c}!ijk