singer@uwovax.uwo.ca (06/01/91)
I recently posted my experience in attempting to replace my Epson LQ 500 with
the new LQ 510--which I took back. We assume something new, with a higher
number, will be better; it wasn't. The clarity of the characters of the 500 was
not approached by the new model. In draft, "e's" looked like "8" and the
insides of letters had a dirty appearance. Every 510 I saw was the same. Was
there a drop in quality to make a cheap printer? Was it just an error? Sample?
What causes these kinds of differences--print head; too much vibration from a
lighter machine; electronics? Any ideas?
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Ben Singer Department of Sociology
University of Western Ontario
Singer@uwo.ca London, Ontario
Singer@uwovax.bitnet N6A 5C2
(519) 660-0671 (home)
(519) 679-2111 Ext 5137andrew@ramona.Cary.NC.US (Andrew Ernest) (06/03/91)
In article <1991May31.175051.9332@uwovax.uwo.ca> singer@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
[ about problems with new Epson LQ-510 ]
Bizarre. I recently bought a 510 for my mom and we thought it was
GREAT (well, we still do). Did you try using the same ribbon in both
printers (the 500 and the 510)? Same results? You sure you weren't
using a ribbon intended for a 9-pin printer? Just grasping for
possibilities; I'm not trying to discredit you. I suppose there may have
been a bad lot of printheads for the 510. We're lucky we got a good one,
if that's the case.
In fact, I was "jealous" that the 510 was better than my 3-year-old,
industrial-strength LQ-1050, both in terms of print quality and design
(ease of changing ribbon, loading paper, tearing off paper, built-in fonts,
etc).
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Andrew Ernest <andrew@ramona.Cary.NC.US>