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...owners who want to take advantage of their computer's fonts and graphics don't have much of a choice when it comes to printers. The Imagewriter I or II is the only inexpensive printer which convieniently hooks up to a Mac, without sacrificing any of the Mac's features...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Tough Choices: Finding the Perfect Printer | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

...Printer quality refers to the quality of the characters on the page; the better the quality, the more readable the letters. Cheap printers use a small set of dots to make up each letter. The so-called dot matrix letters are more difficult to read than a typewriter's characters...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Tough Choices: Finding the Perfect Printer | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

...multi-pass dot matrix printers often produce what is known as near letter quality (NLQ) or correspondence quality. These are terms indicating how close the printer comes to "letter quality"--letter quality usually is defined as the quality of a typewriter...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Tough Choices: Finding the Perfect Printer | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

Correspondence and near letter quality are supposedly for writing notes to friends or for small papers. Most TF's or professors do not object to receiving papers that are printed on an NLQ printer. But for writing a thesis or other important paper, letter quality is a must...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Tough Choices: Finding the Perfect Printer | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

...drawback of letter quality printers lies not in their expense, but rather their slow speed. Inexpensive daisy wheel printers (the daisy wheel is the typing element which contains all the printer's letters and characters) print at about 10 columns per second (CPS), or about one double spaced page in three minutes. The fastest, and considerably more expensive, prints at about 55 CPS, or a page every 45 seconds...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Tough Choices: Finding the Perfect Printer | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

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