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Printers
Printers
~~~~ PRINTER REVIEWS ~~~~
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As I am not a millionaire I can't buy 30 odd printers and review
them so I have reviewed all the printers that my friends have got
which work on the ST. I have kept each printer for 2 to 3 days so
I can get a pretty good idea what the printer is like.
CITIZEN 120D+
I have this printer. It costs about £135 from Silica and is quite
a good 9 pin printer as it is cheap and does it's job. The draft
is quite faint but the NLQ gives quite a good output. It is very
basic, it's maxium resolution DPI is 240 x 240 and it only has one
font in draft and 2 fonts in NLQ but as I said, for a simple and
cheap printer, this is the one to get.
POWER Rating:75%
PANSONIC KX-P1123
Whooooooooooooooo, I wish I had this printer. It has 24 pins,
prints 192 caps in draft, has 2 fonts in draft and 5 in NLQ and it
has a max res DPI of 360 x 360. The printer costs around £280
from Panasonic and is a brilliant printer. It's quiet and it
looks very stylish and impressive.
POWER Rating:90%
STAR LC24-200 COLOUR
This, (as you can tell from it's name) is a colour printer and
quite a good one too. It has 24 pins, prints 222 caps in draft
and has a max res DPI of 360 x 360. It has only 1 font in draft
but 10 fonts in NLQ! The printer itself is full of stylish
rounded off edges. It is a good printer but is not worth £410 in
my opinion.
POWER Rating:79%
SEIKOSHA SP-2400
Quite a strange looking printer and it smells when printing but
maybe that has something to do with the cats vomit on the motor!
It is a 9 pin printer which prints at an amazineg speed of 300cps
in draft. It has a max res DPI of 240 x 144 and costs £160 from
Silica.
RICOH LP1200
This is my uncles laser printer which cost him £821.33 which is
incredibly cheap for such a good printer he assured me.
It looks very unusual but is very capable. It has 3 emulations
which let you have 400 DPI. It comes with 2 megabytes of Ram and
WAS the perfect printer untill I accidentally cracked the paper
holder very badly (maybe he won't notice that crack and with a bit
of luck he won't notice the tip-ex I spilt on it either. Oh and
if I'm really lucky he may just miss the fact that there is a
brick half way through it!) This is a brilliant printer but
although half of the above isn't true about what I have broken it
did seem all to fragile or maybe I'm just not used to laser
printers. Anyway THANKYOU uncle.
POWER Rating:94%
Well, I'm afraid that's all of the printers I could get my hands
on as most of my friends don't have printers and some didn't trust
me with their pride and joy!
Well thankyou to all my friends, I haven't put them in the
Thankyou coloum though as they didn't want to be as they are too
embarrased....(So immature!)
If you can do a reveiw like this please send it too:
POWER
3 SALISBURY ROAD
MIADSTONE
KENT
ENGLAND
ME14 2TY
ALSO, READ THE "WRITING TO POWER" ARTICLE!