room for it... Absolutely the nicest printer I have
ever seen.
Hmm.. I think for dot matrix printers that honour has to go to the
Sanders 12/7 (or maybe the 700) machine. This is a 7 pin dont marrix
printer that is so well made that some fonts use 8 passes of the
printhead -- and it is worth doign that. They do things like justifying
text, lining up columns, etc.
Ah, but I haven't seen one of those ;-) It sounds quite amazing.
THose Sanders printers are amazing machines IMHO. 'Only' a 7 pin head,
but with 8 passes for things like the Greek font [1] the outpu quality is
pretty good.
They suffered from not having much intenranal RAM, and as a result there
were no downloadable fots or even a bit-image mode. You could print text
using the avaialbe font ROMs and that's it. But if that's what you wanted
to do they are great.
[1] This mapped the Greek letters to 'similar' Roamn ones. Of course
there are 24 of the former and 26 of the latter, so there were 2 unusued
spaces. IIRC these were used for h-bar and lambda-bar (!).
I beleive there ws a thing caleld the Sanders 900, which was effectively
a 700 with a 9 pin head. Certainly the hardwre of the 700 ahs some 9-bit
wide data paths in it (the main RAM is 9 bits wide too), presuambly for
this model.
Another nice printer I have come across was a Qume
daisywheel printer,
I haev a Print 3 and a Sprint 5 somewhere. Nver done much with them,...
The old Diablo daiswywheels are built link tanks too. I have ome
somewhere that's built in a diesast alloy housing....
-tony