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STAR LC-10 'Power without the price ?!?!?'
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PRODUCER: Star
PRICE: about 400 DM
I'm sitting in front of my radio and Herbert Gröni sounds into my
ears ! Next to me he's standing: the STAR LC 10.Successor of the
magic STAR NC-10.Now I've also one and I'll try to tell you
something about this latest product of STAR ! This printer is a
nine-pin-printer.
After removing the package we find the following things: first of
all the printer (OH!),the cylinderbutton,the printercover and the
140 pages printermanual,the single-leaf-entry (halfautomatic) and
last but not least the colourtape,a sticker and one page with all
important commands.What are we going to do now? Let's look into
the manual and try to build up the printer.After five minutes we
got to install the infinite-paper ! You'll have to work some more
minutes to install it in the correct way because the transport-
mechanism is right at the back of the printer.After a few minutes
we solve also this problem and now we can try to develope the
technical-tricks of this, since some weeks, very cheap printer !
A new great mechanism is the so called 'halfautomatic'.To change
the used paper from infinite-paper to single-leaf you need only
some grips.First you'll have to press the 'Paper-Feed'-key while
pressing the 'Print-Pitch'-key and the printer will push back the
infinite-paper and park it.This means the infinite-paper won't
disturb the user while printing on single-leafs ! You must insert
the single-leaf and use the another key to transport it into the
printer.After another grip the paper is in the right position to
be printed !!!! Great invention !
This sounds good and it is good, but not perfect because some-
times while changing from single-leaf printing to infinite-paper
the printer isn't able to remove the infinite-paper into the
correct position and in most cases you lose one leaf ! If you
want to avoid this mistake you can set a new mark for the
beginnig of the page and everything will work right. Let us talk
about the different kinds of type.Their're seven different sizes
for all fonts.These sizes can be combined in the NLQ-Mode (near
letter quality) with three different kinds of type.The printer is
able to print about 144 signs per second in the fastest mode
called 'draft'-mode.The NLQ-mode is able to print 30 signs per
second.The printbuffer is 4KByte and this is more then most of
the other printers for about 400 marks.Intern the STAR LC-10 is
able to work with 14 different international signsortiments. A
good printer needs a good manual and the STAR LC-10 has got both.
The 144 pages of the users manual tell everything important from
the installation,the work with printer and basic till the design
of new signs.The noisy is reduced to a minimum and it is also
possible to talk while printing with the new STAR.
valuation:
The STAR LC-10 printer seems to be one of the best nine-pin-
printers for about 400 marks.You can get the latest inventions of
printing technic without missing great signs and good printing
quality ! Altogether the printer is well constructed and we can
say:'The STAR LC-10 is POWER WITHOUT THE PRICE !!!!!' !
POSSITIV: NEGATIV:
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- halfauto matic (for single-leaf) - installation of infinite
- good signquality paper to difficult !
- different fonts
- very low
Timo Schmidt