Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ssd From: ssd@sugar.uu.net (Scott Denham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Cheap colour printer Summary: Also known as....... Message-ID: <2692@sugar.uu.net> Date: 28 Sep 88 04:57:14 GMT References: <7134@gryphon.CTS.COM> <254300020@trsvax> <7291@gryphon.CTS.COM> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX Lines: 32 In article <7291@gryphon.CTS.COM>, richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: > [Tandy colour printer info deleted] > > Didn't sound like a commercial to me. I've never heard of the thing. Is it > a Tandy engine, or a Canon clone, like the Quadram. > > Care to comment on the ink colour quality ? Is red RED like the Tektronix, > orange like the HP and the Canon, or a tad on the cyan side like the Xerox ? > > richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard My understanding is that it is in fact the Canon PJ-1080 (??) color ink jet with a Tandy label on it. This printer is also flogged by IBM as the hardcopy device for their 3179G/3192G color graphics terminals (or was until they discontinued it in June). I heard the Tandy was the same from someone trying to direct us to supplies for our now orphaned IBM's (which I got at the end of May :(.... As for the colors, they tend toward those of the HP PaintJet more than the Xerox ones. And aside from being Horrendously slow and fairly noisy (compared to the HP) it's not a bad graphics printer. An unsolicted word to the wise on these things..... when it comes to paper, all color inkjets are NOT created equal. We've tried crossing the IBM's paper with the HP's.... with results varying from poor (HP paper in IBM/Canon printer) to spectacularly bad (IBM paper in HP). Scott Denham Western Atlas International Houston Tx As I am kept completely in the dark with a steady supply of organic fertilizer, any opinions expressed could only be my own (or fertilizer).