Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!uflorida!usfvax2!tscs!gerard From: gerard@tscs.UUCP (Stephen M. Gerard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Heavy Duty Printers Keywords: Printer Labels Message-ID: <188@tscs.UUCP> Date: 13 Jul 88 23:53:32 GMT References: <10359@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <244@pigs.UUCP> Reply-To: gerard@tscs.UUCP (Stephen M. Gerard) Organization: Total Support Computer Systems, Tampa, Florida Lines: 28 In article <244@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes: >In article <10359@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bkliewer@iuvax.UUCP (Bradley Dyck Kliewer) writes: >>I remember seeing a review of a printer which had a wide carriage and >>3 or 4 heads. It was built for churning out long jobs. Does anybody > >the best printer, of the dot matrix variety, i've ever seen is the >okidata 2410. it is, in fact, the only okidata printer i've ever >seen which is worth a d*mn. The Okidata 2410 is the best dot matrix printer that we have used/sold. The print quality is good, and mechanically it is built like a tank. Lots of printers claim high CPS throughput, but they don't move the paper fast enough to take advantage of it. I have seen many printers claiming in excess of 200 characters per second that in reality only achieve about 80 CPS due to the slow slew rate of the forms tractor. The new Okidata 390 is a very nice printer, but does not have the heavy duty construction of the 2410. The only problems I have seen with the 2410 are: + Ours got struck by lightning, and blew out a couple of chips. I can't blame the printer for this. :-) + One of our customers was reinking their ribbons with the wrong type of ink, and wore out the plastic gears that drive the ribbon. They stopped reinking ribbons, and stopped wearing out gears. This is not an ad for Okidata, only comments of a satisfied user of the 2410. -Steve