Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!uflorida!haven!uvaarpa!virginia!kesmai!dca From: dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Cheap colour printer Message-ID: <186@kesmai.COM> Date: 28 Sep 88 01:04:44 GMT References: <7134@gryphon.CTS.COM> <254300020@trsvax> <7291@gryphon.CTS.COM> Organization: Kesmai Corporation, Charlottesville, VA Lines: 20 > > 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. The cgp-220 is a canon-pj1080a clone. Even looks pretty much identical. > > 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 ? > > How about blue ? Is it greenish, purpleish, or BLUE ? Whatever the 1080a looks like, I expect the cgp-220 is identical. > > Can you still buy these things in Radio Shacks ? Been discontinued a long time. Unlikely. It does use a different ROM set so you need a cgp-220 driver. At one time I heard you could order a new 1080 ROM set from Canon and install it which might be a smart idea. I don't remember where I heard it so I can't give any more info. David Albrecht