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
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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).