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From: johnm@trsvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Cheap colour printer
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Date: 24 Sep 88 19:57:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!johnm    Sep 24 14:57:00 1988


This is going to sound suspiciously like a plug.  It is not.  The reason that 
it is not a plug is because my company doesn't even sell this printer any more.
With that said:

If you are looking for a cheap color printer see if you can pick up the old
Tandy CGP220.  It is an ink jet printer that uses two cartriges, one for black
ink and one that contains Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow ink.  In graphics mode it
prints dots on a 1:1 (Yea!) aspect ratio with up to 640 dots across the page.
Obviously you would have to dither or do Floyd Steinberg or something in order
to get more colors out of it but I think it's a really neat printer.

Here's why you might want one:

1) It should be very cheap IF (and that's a big if) you can find one.  We're
talking $100 or so.  During the final closeouts of this one it was going for
around $140 or so.

2) Tandy still sells both kinds of cartridges.

3) The color printing from this is considerably cheaper than say a Okidata 20.
The Okidata will give you ~7 or 8 color pages from a ribbon but you have about
3 million characters worth of ink in each of the three colors in the color
cartridge, the last time I checked they wanted ~$19 for the color cartridge and
slightly less for the black (you need one of each for the printer to run).

If this sounds like something you are interested in I wish you luck in finding
one in your town.

John Munsch

Tandy didn't put me up to this.  Most of the people working here have even 
forgotten the printer ever existed.