sct@lanl.ARPA (03/07/85)
Yesterday I almost bought the Blue Chip printer at LaBelle's. The price was $239.00. When I asked for the interface for a C64 they said they didn't have any an couldn't tell me when then would get any in stock. I subsequently did not buy the printer. I have since looked at other printers and have found that the Gemini 10x has a successor, the Gemini SG 10. Has anyone purchased one of these? From what I read the new printer has a "near letter quality" mode plus a 2K print buffer. It supposedly has all of the other features of the old Gemini 10X. I also bought the Cardoco +G interface. Are most people out there who have this interface happy with it? I will summarize replies to the net. *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
mikevp@proper.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) (03/11/85)
> I also bought the Cardco +G interface. Is everyone else who bought > one of these happy with it? I bought one of these, and I am very UNhappy with it. I am using it with an Epson MX80, so my experience may not be applicable to the Gemini. Printing any kind of graphics takes *f*o*r*e*v*e*r* (that includes the Comodore special characters, anything that is not standard ASCII) because it does continuous forward-backward shuttling of the print head back and forth. This beats the print mechanism to death, and takes about 45-50 seconds for every single line of print. Also, for all potential Epson/Cardco users out there, you absolutely MUST have Graftrax+ to run this: The original Graftrax will not work for anything but straight ASCII text, though the Cardco people will swear up and down that you don't need Graftrax+. Personally, if I knew now what I knew then, I would look for something else.