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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!charlet
- From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
- Subject: Re: Whether to buy a Canon BubbleJet or a HP DeskJet500
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.002018.8172@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
- References: <65304@cup.portal.com> <1992Sep10.150237.24533@sagpd1> <1992Sep11.041341.22588@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Sep11.200901.16192@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:20:18 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Sep11.041341.22588@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> eodell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eugene O'Dell) writes:
- >>
- >> I don't know what the original post was, but I'll add my $.02
- >>worth. Don't buy the Canon Bubble Jet. It's slow and is a pain to
- >>get working... Get the HP, it's a better printer. Oh, in case you're
- >>wondering, I sell Canon BJ printers... :-)
-
- >What a crock! I have a BJ-10e using the latest driver from Wolf Faust it
- >screams. It is NOT SLOW. Output with Final Copy is absolutely awesome
- >and the speed blows away any other non-laser printer I have ever used.
- >A "pain to get working"? Hardly. Install driver, set dip switches as
- >specified in driver docs, use printer. The new driver on Fred Fish 696
- >is awesome! All sorts of feature and you can download any Amiga
- >font to the printer for your use. The special cannon prefs program
- >has options that no other drive I have seen has. Check it out!
- >Ian.
-
- I heartily second the praise for the BJ! (I have a BJ-5). Installation
- was *very* simple. Plus, the Canons, for the most part, are very portable
- should you need to take one anywhere.
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