josh@osf.org (07/19/90)
My Imagewriter I is dying (I had to disable reverse-direction printing) and I'd like to get a new printer. The Imagewriter II seems expensive for the quality of print it produces. I'm using the printer with Appleworks so I care about the default printer fonts rather than printing text via bit-maps (as the Mac does). I checked out a computer store, but they said that you can't use a normal (IBM-PC of course) printer even if you get it with a serial port with an apple. This doesn't make much sense to me. (But should I expect printer interfaces to make sense?) Does anyone have any experience with this? Also any recommendations on an inexpensive printer that has a decent near, near-letter-quality font? I can't see spending much more than $200-300 on a printer for the IIc. An unrelated question that I might as well ask since I'm posting this message to "thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world:" My keyboard is starting to stick (How would you like to have a sticky <Delete> key?). Is there some user-accessible way to clean it up? Should I take it to a dealer? Any idea on how much they'll charge? Thanks for the time Joshua Goldman josh@osf.org (617)-621-8857 Open Software Foundation 11 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142