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From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWorld
Keywords: Printers
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Date: 17 Aug 89 21:57:22 GMT
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In article <501@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
:In article <13546@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) writes:
::6) Printers: HP's DeskWriter: outstanding.  Enough has been said in the net
::	about this one already, so I'll mention the other two I saw that I
::	liked.  GCC's WriteImpact: 360x180 dpi resolution with scalable and
:                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
::	fully rotatable (1 deg increments) outline fonts and a forecoming
::	utility to convert nonencrypted Bitstream and other fonts to the
::	GCC format for $699 list (including Times, Helvetica, Courier, Symbol,
::	Palatino and some other font I can't remember).  Minor registration
::	problems (very hard to notice) which I was told would be solved by
:
:Really?  What was the print technology on the WriteImpact.  Can I assume from
:the name that it's a really high-resolution dot-matrix??

It was 24-pin dot matrix.  It was not quite as nice as ther DeskWriter.  The
main problems were that (a) the quality decreased as the ribbon got older
(there didn't seem to be a problem like that with the DW - probably due to
ink cartridge technology);  (b) The registration problem I mentioned earlier:
the output resulting from different passes of the printhead were slightly off
from each other.  Like I said, I was told it would be solved by release time.

:I was all convinced that I wanted to buy a DeskWriter, but now I'm not so
:sure...  Anybody else see it?  Any ideas?

Well, the reason I liked it was that it was significantly cheaper than the
DeskWriter.  Remember, it *lists* for $699 (cheaper than the *street* prices
we've seen for the DW so far), so it's street price should be ~$400.  That's
a decent savings for what you give up in the DW: Better quality and quiet
operation.  I figure not everybody has $750-$800 to dish out on a printer;
$400?  That's a different market.

:Are you wondering why this message is rambling?  (Simple:  the mailer on
:media-lab is stupid.  If you include more text than you compose, it rejects
:the message.  So in an attempt (?) to cut down on use of the bandwidth, they
:actually increase it when you need to include large files. :-(  Any fixes,
:anyone?  (I'll be talking to someone here about it soon, but if there's a
:command I'm missing, yell))

A nice way to solve it (at least it works on my poster):  Use the emacs
replace-string command to replace all accurrences of > with : (like in this
message).  I don't use that feature that often, but it's useful enough.
I tried the "line fodder" method once but the poster's smart enough to notice
that, and I got chided for being naughty :-).

-Ivan

Internet: captkidd@athena.mit.edu

Disclaimer: I have no relation to GCC Technologies, except that I like their
		printers.