Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!db.toronto.edu!jdd 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 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John DiMarco Hard work never killed a man ... jdd@csri.toronto.edu ... but it sure has scared lots of them! {uunet!utai,watmath!utai,decvax,decwrl,ihnp4}!utcsri!jdd jdd@utcsri.UUCP --------------------------------------------------------------------------------