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The besl solution may be to buy one of each type, since a fast dot-matrix printer and a
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directly on the light-sensitive drum inside the copier. This results in a copy as good and as fast as those of any other copier.
Instead of characters per second, these printers are rated in pages per minute. The slowest one available prints eight pages per minute (about 270 cps). Unfortunately, it also costs from S.1500-S 10,000, depending on options, mating it an unlikely partner in a Commodore homo computer system.
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Electrostatic printers arc a variation on thermal printers. They use a special paper with a layer of aluminum over a black sheet. When printed, the desired characters arc created by burning ihrough the aluminum layer, exposing the black sheet below. The resulting print out is permanent, though subject to creases. The printers themselves are cheap, but ihe paper
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In actual practice, your choice of primer may be dictated by other choices. Only a few of the most popular printers are fully supponcd by widely sold printer interfaces and ap plication programs. If you already know which word processor, spreadsheet or other ap plication program you want lo use, you may be able to choose a primer by simply scanning
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Thermal printers are based on the same principle as Ihc old 3M Thermofax machine, which created an image In heat-sensitive paper. Those thermal primers slill on the markel are qulM and quick, up to 200 cps. They arc also cheap, sometimes under $200. However,
it will not work with that program until the company tells you otherwise. I can'l emphasize this enough. Just because two products are both for the Commodore does not mean they will work together.
Most word processors, for example, only perform their best tricks wilh a few specified printers, and the favored printers vary from word processor to word processor. Similarly.