dpw@rayssd.UUCP (04/29/85)
I want to buy a Letter Quality printer with part of my tax return and would like to get the net input on them. The factors in order of importance are : 1. Price less than $400.00 2. Reliable if it breaks it will be six months before I will get the cash to fix it. 3. Print wheels Have some selection of print wheels Currently I am considering the following printer, but my search is not limited to those printers. 1. Star Micronics - I have a Gemini 10x that I love. 2. Juki 6100 3. Silver Reed 400 Know nothing about it 4. Cardco LQ3 " Protecto Enterprizes has an ad for Juki deluxe computer printer on sale for $249.00. Is this the 6100 or some strip down model? Any help that those in the know about letter Quality printer I would like to hear from. Thanks in advance. -- Darryl Wagoner Raytheon Co.; Portsmouth RI; (401)-847-8000 x4089 ...!decvax!brunix!rayssd!dpw ...!allegra!rayssd!dpw ...!linus!rayssd!dpw
jp@lanl.ARPA (05/01/85)
> > I want to buy a Letter Quality printer with part of my tax return > and would like to get the net input on them. The factors in order of > importance are : > > 1. Price less than $400.00 > 2. Reliable if it breaks it will be six months > before I will get the cash to fix it. > 3. Print wheels Have some selection of print wheels > > Currently I am considering the following printer, but my search is not > limited to those printers. > > 1. Star Micronics - I have a Gemini 10x that I love. > 2. Juki 6100 > 3. Silver Reed 400 Know nothing about it > 4. Cardco LQ3 " > > Protecto Enterprizes has an ad for Juki deluxe computer printer on sale > for $249.00. Is this the 6100 or some strip down model? Any help that > those in the know about letter Quality printer I would like to hear from. > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Darryl Wagoner > Raytheon Co.; Portsmouth RI; (401)-847-8000 x4089 > ...!decvax!brunix!rayssd!dpw > ...!allegra!rayssd!dpw > ...!linus!rayssd!dpw Well, here we go again. The #%&$# machine crashed just as I was about to finish my original reply. My brother researched this subject pretty thoroughly a few months ago. (Does that mean the information is obsolete??) He ended up buying a COMREX II for $375. After seeing it perform and knowing how careful my brother is with a buck, I decided to buy a COMREX also. I got the COMREX IIE (slightly faster, otherwise the same) from JADE for $399. It has been in use on my daughter's take-off-to-college word processing system for two months now with no problems whatsoever. In fact I am very impressed with the ease with which the ribbon and print wheel can be changed. Both operations are essentially "drop-in". The ribbon and the print wheel do not interfere. After struggling to change the print wheels on a fancy QUME in order to get an occasional Greek letter or math symbol into an English text, I was quite impressed with the design of the COMREX. The print wheels are enclosed in a plastic housing which makes for easy handling, but they cost about $15. The ribbon looks like one I7ve seen on another printer but I can't place it. The same printer (or very nearly) is available as a Brother HR-15XL (I think they are the actual manufacturer) and as a Dynax something-or- other. I must say I am impressed with the quality of printer that $400 buys these days. Oh, yes. The control codes for the COMREX printers are "standard" Diablo 630 codes which makes for easy installation with Wordstar, etc. Jim Potter jp@lanl.arpa
werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (05/02/85)
> I want to buy a Letter Quality printer with part of my tax return > 1. Price less than $400.00 > -- > Darryl Wagoner, Raytheon Co.; Portsmouth RI; (401)-847-8000 x4089 In the first issue of the Harvard Computer Review, which I was then editing, we had a review of the Dynax DX-15 (alias Brother HR-15, alias Comrex CR-II) compared to the Juki 6100, which was listed in Darryl Wagoner's list of choices. They both were reviewed favorably. Although not directly related to the article, I later bought a Dynax, and it has served me quite well ever since. (Incidentally, I have an Epson FX-80 to the right of the computer and a DX-15 to the left, and I would recommend just such arrangement to anyone thinking of buying a Near-Letter-Quality printer. This gets the best of both world's - even better - and is just as cheap if not cheaper. I used to switch cables, but now I have a second printer port on a Multi-func card.) -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner What do you expect? Watermelons are out of season!
mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) (05/02/85)
I have a Juki (it came with my Kaypro Business Pack) and I have been quite pleased, although I would recommend getting the tractor feed (I didn't, and as an add-on it's kinda steep). Charley Wingate