jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) (09/13/90)
I own an inexpensive color dot-matrix printer, and while it's not bad, it definitely doesn't produce graphics output of a sort I'd want to publish-- the colors aren't saturated, and the output has bands across it (their width is probably the height of the print head) that are rather distracting. So...I'm wondering whether there's some inexpensive (to me, a PaintJet is *not* inexpensive) color printer out there that does better. Alas, the folks who do those periodically-appearing magazines that list the available hardware of a particular category seem to have stopped putting them out for printers, and even when they were doing that, they didn't include what I'd really love to see, namely a color reproduction of sample output (along with some info on how long it took and the rate of ribbon/ink consumption using whatever technique or program they used for the output). The magazines on the racks these days are heavily concentrating on laser printers. So...have people out there seen good inexpensive color printers? (Heck, I've been tempted to go to Toys-R-Us and buy an Okimate 20.) If people are interested, I'll summarize responses. James Jones