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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: Printer Footprints
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.031948.4739@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 03:19:48 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <1992Dec21.132420.3115@schbbs.mot.com> <walkerl-221292164548@3.7.192.190>
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- In article <walkerl-221292164548@3.7.192.190> walkerl@med.ge.com (Larry Walker) writes:
- >Well, I've been wondering about this myself, so I got a tape measure and
- >checked my wife's SytleWriter vs my DeskWriter:
- >
- >SW = 13" wide x 20.5" deep x 12" high
- >
- >DW = 17" wide x 15" deep x 8" high
- >
- >(Sorry for the archaic units, it was all I had handy...)
- >
- >The DW will fit under an 8" high shelf (although you'll have to pull it out
- >to flip up the top to change ink cartridges); the SW needs a little extra
- >clearance
- >above its 12" height in order to feed paper into its more-or-less vertical
- >paper holder/feeder.
- >
- >The SW _looks_ a lot smaller, until you unfold its Rube Goldberg-esque
- >paper catcher thingie: then its footprint expands greatly (the SW is only
- >9.5" deep with it closed).
-
- Footprint? I have that part extend over empty space, which takes care
- of that problem. (the SW sits right on top of my 13" monitor-- I only
- open the tray to print, as it is a bit distracting to have it in my
- face :-) )
- --
- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu
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