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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
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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
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