ral@pyuxqq.UUCP (06/10/85)
I could not get mail back to the requester, so here's a posting: My division purchased 30 Hewlett Packard Thinkjet printers. They are well-loved, and produce good quality output (tho not correspondence quality) when the boldface option is turned on. The draft quality is a bit lite and does not Xerox well on photocopiers. The printer is very light and small (I park it on top of my hp 2392a crt). The entire print head and ink supply is a replaceable module that snaps into the machine in a couple of seconds, much more easily than corresponding operations in impact printers. Hewlett Packard advises you to use special paper that accepts the ink jet squirts readily without smearing. I have heard a complaint, but not verified it, that the ink remains forever water soluble. One problem we've had: the ink jets tend to clog now and then. A moist tissue wiped over the print head normally solves the problem. A clerk who works for me tells me that saliva works best. In two cases, we could not bring the ink jet cartidge back to life, so we just replaced it (cost is about $8). See blurb in Byte magazine (Jan, 1985, pg 337) and this month's (June) Consumer Reports (has article on printers). ======================================================================== Ron Levenberg Bell Communications Research 3 Corporate Place Room 2C-315 Piscataway, NJ 08854 (201) 981-6178 ..!allegra!pyuxqq!ral