hakanl@lulea.telesoft.se (H}kan Lennest}l) (01/29/91)
The OKIMATE 20 is supposed to be a cheap (100-150 pound) printer capable of producing very good color printouts. Has anyone seen it in real life ? /H}kan
harlock@netcom.UUCP (Mike Harlock) (02/01/91)
In article <3605@lulea.telesoft.se>, hakanl@lulea.telesoft.se (H}kan Lennest}l) writes: > The OKIMATE 20 is supposed to be a cheap (100-150 pound) printer capable of > producing very good color printouts. > Has anyone seen it in real life ? I just bought one here on the net a few days ago. It's INCREDIBLE. It has paint-jet quality output in color and BW, due to the fact that it uses a thermal print head and thermal heat transfer wax ribbons for printing. It's also small, about half the size and the same highth of a medium-sized toshiba laptop computer. Also, being a heat-wax thermal transfer printer, anything you print out can be iorned on to a t-shirt. Hee. extra income. Only problem is the t-shirt has to be washed on cold and drip-dried to keep the design in tact. This printer is great for graphics, and mediocre for text, but could be nicer with text depending on the driver. You need a special plug'n'print module for each different kind of computer. (apple II, Mac, IBM, Amiga, ST, etc.) I am using it on an Amiga 500 with the standard Okimate 20 driver that comes on the extras disk, and it performs like a charm. I'm already doing flyers and schedules for a local club like I used to with my Imagewriter II, when I had one. definantly a printer worth getting for inexpensive high quality color graphic output. --harlock@netcom.UUCP
m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT) (02/05/91)
In article <3605@lulea.telesoft.se> hakanl@lulea.telesoft.se (H}kan Lennest}l) writes: >The OKIMATE 20 is supposed to be a cheap (100-150 pound) printer capable of >producing very good color printouts. >Has anyone seen it in real life ? > >/H}kan I have had one connected to my Amiga 1000 for several years. It produces medium resolution print-outs (approx 100 dpi) with truly vivid colors. It does require special ribbons and paper for best results. The ribbons are not re-usable, so print-outs are more expensive than with dot-matrix printers. Also it is relatively slow, but I feel that the picture quality is woth the cost and time. If you do by an OkiMate20, you may want to consider an inexpensive dot matrix printer for printing letters and other text; it will be much faster and more efficient than using the okimate for non-graphics applications. Wildstar