Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
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From: jdd@db.toronto.edu ("John D. DiMarco")
Subject: Re: Atari Letter-quality Printer
Message-ID: <8806061515.AA00480@blues.db.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <1907@alliant.Alliant.COM> <15077@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date:	Mon, 6 Jun 88 09:55:44 EDT

In article <15077@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Weaver) writes:
>In article <1907@alliant.Alliant.COM> lackey@alliant.COM (Stan Lackey) writes:
>>Well, I was walking through my local software shop last night, and, much
>>to my amazement, I saw a few of the atari letter quality printers selling
>>for $79.99!! 

This is a good deal - jump at it!

>>My question is, where do I find the replacement little ink things?  I would
>>like to collect up a supply, because stuff like that can start getting
>>in short supply when things are past their prime :-).

You don't need to stock up on the ink rollers - you can re-ink them quite
nicely by running them up and down an ink pad a few times. One roller can 
last you indefinitely. 

>My question:  did you buy the Atari 1027 Letter Quality Printer?  If so,
>this is a printer that Atari started making about 5 or more years ago
>(before Tramiel bought the company) and no longer supports.  (As far
>as I know.)  If it isn't the 1027 model, which model is it?  I haven't
>heard of any new Atari printers (aside from the XMM801/SMM801 dot matrix
>printers and the in/famous Atari Laser Printer) since all the hype about
>three years ago.
The 1027 is the only letter quality printer Atari has produced, and it is the
only Atari printer I know of which uses 'little ink things'. It is a fairly
nice printer, but it has the following disadvantages:
	- it is very loud.
	- it is very slow (about 10-20 cps)
	- it only supports friction feed.

However, it produces quite nice letter quality print, and it supports the
international character set. The one beef I have about the printouts it
produces is the fact that the apostrophe (') character looks rather funny; it
is slanted quite sharply.

If it breaks, however, you'll have trouble getting it fixed, since it is
no longer supported by anybody.

I had a 1027 for quite a while, and it was a fairly nice little printer. 

>>-Stan
>-- 
>Andrew Weaver             |  weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu        
>OSU College of Business   |  ...ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!weaver

John


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