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- From: arends@Metaphor.COM (Dale M. Arends)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: HP Paintwriter? Any comments?
- Message-ID: <2512@cronos.metaphor.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 21:07:09 GMT
- References: <Bu0M2J.7q4@well.sf.ca.us>
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- Reply-To: arends@Metaphor.COM (Dale M. Arends)
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- In article <Bu0M2J.7q4@well.sf.ca.us>, dbb@well.sf.ca.us (David B. (Ben) Burch) writes:
- |> Hello! I am considering the purchase of an HP Paintwriter printer. The price
- |> on these is now $300, 0.25 of their list price. Does anybody have any exper-
- |> iences with this device (positive or negative) which they would want to relate?
- |> Are the drivers compatibe with current system software? Do they do a good job
- |> of rendering color Quickdraw images? Do they require special papers to work
- |> well? Any help would be appreciated as I need to make a purchase descision
- |> soon. Thnaks!
- |>
- |> -Ben Burch
- |> dbb@well.sf.ca.us
-
- My wife and I have had one now for about 8 ink cartridges worth. Overall, it
- is a decent color printer with a few drawbacks. Ours is not (easily) network
- capable (the XL version is but not the small one). If you don't use the top
- quality HP PaintWriter paper, the colors will be somewhat muted; they are
- great on the HP paper. The drivers are compatible with System 7, 32-bit clean,
- but the background spooler had trouble with System 7 (before TuneUp 1.1.1) so
- we removed it and have not re-installed it.
-
- If I were looking for an inexpensive color printer now, I would also look
- closely at the DeskWriter C. I don't know which I'd go for.
-
- Dale
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- Dale M. Arends arends@Yosemite.Metaphor.com
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