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- From: dglo@manray.Berkeley.EDU (Dave Glowacki)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Deskwriter recommendations?
- Summary: Help me spend my money
- Message-ID: <1ia4quINNgce@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 19:57:18 GMT
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- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- I'm ready to buy a printer to hook up to my IIci at home and I'm pretty sure
- I want a Deskwriter of some sort, but I've got a few questions.
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- 1) We'll mainly be doing B&W output but color would be nice for those times
- when my daughter draws something spectacular that we want to send off
- to the grandparents :-) Is it silly to buy one of the color models
- if we're hardly ever going to use the color?
-
- 2) In pricing the printers, I've found 500Cs in the $500 range and 550Cs
- in the $700 range. Is the 550C *really* $200 better?
-
- 3) Can I hook a Deskwriter up to a DOS machine? According to the salesdweeb
- I talked to, this can't be done but being a software kinda guy, I'm
- inclined to think that it's a matter of a cable change.
-
- Thanks for any help!
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- Dave Glowacki dglo@cs.Berkeley.EDU UCBerkeley
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