Re: Printers/XyWrite 3+/OS2 v3

[Marvin Katz marvkatz@xxxxxxxx]

jbesser@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> In <199701110048.TAA05528@xxxxxxxx>, on 01/10/97
>  at 07:46 PM, pienciak@xxxxxxxx (Pienciak) said:
>
> >My Okidata OL400 (LED) printer won't feed paper in past
> >several inches and supposedly needs a paper input assembly,
>
> You may want to consider something cheaper. My Canon bubblejet is a champ
> with the Xy/Dos and OS/2 combination, using ibm-x24e emulation. At first, the
> per-page cost was too high. But newly available refill kits make it very economical.
> The print is almost laser quality; it also does a very nice job on incoming faxes
> received with FaxWorks/2.
>
> For what it's worth...
>
>            James D. Besser, Washington Correspondent
>    Fax: 703.978.3675 * E-mail: jbesser@xxxxxxxx , jdbesser@xxxxxxxx
>           PO Box 1292, Springfield, VA 22151
>
Brother made/makes (I saw it advertised by one of the computer
superstores a few weeks ago) a true laser printer--Model HL-630--that
was rated a "best buy" by Consumer Reports in September, 1995. It was
costing $300-$400 then, probably less now.

--Marv Katz