Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!tnoibbc!remco From: remco@tnoibbc.UUCP (Remco Bruyne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: 24 Pin Printers Message-ID: <983@tnoibbc.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 88 10:21:01 GMT References: <8812062139.AA21409@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: remco@tnoibbc.UUCP (Remco Bruyne) Organization: Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, IBBC-TNO, The Netherlands Lines: 35 In article <8812062139.AA21409@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> UA0827@SYSE.SALFORD.AC.UK writes: >Hi there everybody, > I am currently a 1st year student at the University Of >Salford, Manchester, England. And have been reading, with interest, the >articles collected from the Atari 16Bit Bulletin Board. I myself own an >Atari 520STFM with internal memory upgrade to 1 Meg, 1 Meg(unformatted) >external drive, Panasonic KXP-1080 9 pin printer and use a Document >............ was wondering if anyone out there had any recommendations >as to the suitability of a specific 24 pin printer. I would be >grateful for any replies, also any problems that certain people might have >had with a specific type/make of 24 pin printer. I bought a NEP P6+ pinwriter about two months ago and I can say that it is worth the hfl 2200,- I paid for it ! It prints fast (draft max 265 cpi, LQ 90 cpi), has a number of built-in fonts, all types of attributes (double-width, triple width, italic, etc), 80 BK input buffer. The setting is not done by means of DIP-switches, but interactively via menus. Another handy thing is that you van park the tractor-paper when you want to print on an A4-sheet or so (like the STAR LC10). The print quality is very good as may be expected for the price; the graphics resolution is 360*360 dots per inch, but many programs do not use more than 180*180 dpi which also looks reasonably well. When you find the price too high (I recall you are a student :-)) you can look at the NEC P2200, lowest price I saw: hfl 999,-. Also 24 pins and software compatible with the old P6. Let me know if you want to know more. Remco -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Remco Bruijne USENET: remco@tnoibbc PHONE: +31 15 606437 ------------------------------------------------------------------