08 March 2010, 21:56 | #1 |
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Do you remember the name of all the printers that you have owned?
Hi!
I bought my first printer in 1987 and since that time I have changed printer a few times. Here's my list from the first to the latest. Commodore MPS-801 Commodore MPS-1250 Commodore MPS-1224C Canon BJC-600 Canon LPB-660 Oki C5250 |
08 March 2010, 22:02 | #2 |
Targ Explorer
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star lc 24-200
only printer I ever bought... |
08 March 2010, 22:03 | #3 |
CBM & Retro Mad
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commodore mps 1230 but i still have it!
all the others where for pc |
08 March 2010, 22:50 | #4 |
Lemon Curry ?
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I have never ever owned a printer.
Why bother having one if you don't have any use for it. |
08 March 2010, 22:56 | #5 |
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NEC P6 Plus used with my A1000, bought in 1987.
Had some difficulty, finding a picture of it online... http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=250569191609 It still exists, waiting in the attic... |
08 March 2010, 22:57 | #6 |
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Never used one in the last 11 years and before that I used a HP-695C (which I still have somewhere).
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09 March 2010, 00:36 | #7 |
The 1 who ribbits
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had a star 24 pin one once
a few epson fx-80`s Great for keeping the neighbors awake favorite was cannon bubble jet think it was BJ-10, I remember buying a sheet feeder for it Nice and white it was to match the A1200, but theres a life story attached to that printer which buy the time it got sorted I was out of a printer but had an electric guitar, which I can`t play |
09 March 2010, 00:50 | #8 |
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Well, there was Billy, Sunita and Kirk, but I forget the rest of their names
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09 March 2010, 06:05 | #9 |
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Just this huge 9-pin thingie, used over 15 years.
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09 March 2010, 06:29 | #10 |
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Out of all the Computer hardware that has been available over the years, i have always had a real hatred for Printers. I don't know why!? yes, they do what i want them to do, but i just can't stand them!
My first printer though was a Dot Matrix, but brand or model number i couldn't tell you? way too long ago. |
09 March 2010, 08:15 | #11 |
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Star LC-200 9-pin
HP DeskJet 540 I don't actually 'own' a printer anymore, just tend to 'borrow' the parent's printer. Rarely print anyway - can't justify the extorinate cost of ink as it is! If I did own a printer I'd just buy a dot matrix again, cheap, cheerful and noisy |
09 March 2010, 19:57 | #12 |
Puttymoon inhabitant
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Star LC-20 only. Crappy noisy monster.
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09 March 2010, 20:48 | #13 |
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Epson LX800 (I think)
Amstrad DMP2000 (Tough as old boots this thing, flimsy but worked) I bet some of you will remember this HP Deskjet 500 (Not colour) HP Deskjet 560C (Almost the same as the 500 but in colour)) Epson Stylus Color 680 (Still using) Epson Stylus Photo R800 (Knackered) |
09 March 2010, 23:35 | #14 |
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I picked this monster up locally so did not have to pay any postage thank goodness...
A STAR LC24-10 A bit noisy but it does exactly what I need it to do Having had no joy in finding a USB printer solution this was a quick and easy way to get something printed. I use it quite often and I am pleased with it... |
17 March 2010, 04:40 | #15 |
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Personally owned:
Panasonic KX P1081 - 1988 Canon Bubblejet BJC 600 - 1994 Canon S900 - 2002- Present Got as part of UNI IT package for undergrad (1998) and Masters (2002): HP Deskjet 670c (1998) Epson Stylus Colour C62 (2002) When I went to uni I was given the HP Deskjet 670C... didn't like it at all and ended up taking my trusty old BJC. Sadly the rubber washers on the sheet feeder wore so much that it wouldn't take in paper, so was replaced with the S900 which I still have. The Epson worked ok for a while and then started to irritate me also.... so yep took the new Canon to uni as a backup. So I have only ever "bought" 3 printers - The panasonic was for my BBC Micro The BJC 600, I loved to bits although I bought about a month before they slightly updated the spec (600e - 720x360 dpi Black 360x360 dpi colour) lol although I loved the individual ink tanks (and still do). It cracks me up that you can buy a printer for £35 and the ink carts (Branded ones mind) cost as much, and thats usually for a black cart and a separate colour cart. Granted the separate ink tanks can be expensive too especially when you have six (or more!) to replace but at least you can buy one at a time. However... I digress... |
17 March 2010, 12:51 | #16 |
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I think the first printer was an Epson MX-80. The perfect matrix printer, in my opinion. Supported by lots of my home computers through the years... Have the wider MX-100 in my dad's cellar still. Used the MX-80 for word processing on my MSX, printing pictures of fish etc when I had the Atari ST briefly, and wrote a custom 16-greyshade multi-pass printing program for Amiga graphics for it
Probably used it from 1983 to 1992-1993. Solid clockwork. Then laser printers were hot and I had a LED one, an OKI... a B4200? I think. At Uni I got some gigantic super-professional dozens of pages per minute 'Opus'. Needless to say my rent included 'ordinary household consumption of electricity' back then ;P It was almost the size of a half height fridge and too heavy for one person to lift... industrial stuff with cartridges that lasted 10000 copies or something! The OKI worked fine for a lot of years and when finally the paper feed failed I moved on to HP Laserjet III and now 4ML for my Amiga. On PC I had an Epson Inkjet multipurpose thing which drove me mad, then I coped without a printer for years and a couple years ago I bought a Color Laserjet 1600 which I'm very happy with. Also have an original Mac matrix printer stowed away. |
17 March 2010, 14:05 | #17 |
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1986 - ZX Printer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Printer
Used on my Spectrum days. I still have several prints from Football Director 2 and Formula One from 1986-1988, so I can prove that aluminium paper can resist the pass of time. 1988 - Epson LX800 Used it in all my Amigas till 1996. A workhorse. Reliable, slow , noisy, never had a problem with that. 1996 - HP 300 series - don't remember the exact model Pretty crappy printer, jammed all the paper. It's life ended with a reinvigorating kick with me being more than fed up after jamming for the 1000th time! (really) 1999 - HP Laserjet 6L Still used today. Main and only task is for printing sheet music. Reliable and a cartridge last for a good 2 years. |
18 March 2010, 10:46 | #18 |
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Panasonic KXP-1081 (coupled with pagestream2, surprisingly good output from a 9 pin dot matrix!)
Canon BJ300 (awesome) Epson something Canon IP4500 (again, superb) HP Laserjet 4L (was a tenner, printed around 2000 sheets on it ) Samsung ML2010 (cheap, quick) |
18 March 2010, 19:27 | #19 |
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Hmm, let's see. Printers in bold.
It all started with me and my brother using the x-mas money to buy the cheapest 9-pin printer: A Panasonic KXP-1081 as someone mentioned I also used it for Pagestream, quite nice print outs! I want to buy Pagestream for Windows, it's a great program. After that i think we bought a huge serial 9-pin printer with only tractor feed. Dont remember it's name. It was rebranded Essettle. An Atari portfolio connected to it looked REALLY small, and at 1200bps the printer paused to wait for more data After this i bought another 9-pin-printer, Epson i think at an auction at my fathers job (An air force base) It did'nt have a centronics interface so i called to every firm selling computers in a 80 km radius, and finally actually found a centronics interface card for it. I do remember another 9-pin printer, but i can't remember where it came from or what it was. After this I think i got a HP Deskjet 500C from my father. I bought a Huge Nec Silentwriter, an ancient laserprinter with bleed toner but worked very well for text. It was definitly NOT silent. I borrowed this one to a friend with an attached NTL (Non Throwing Licence (It's basically: You can't throw it unless it's really broken, you can give it away if the receiver accepts the NTL in his turn)) I then bought a HP PaintJet XL300 from a friend, it had Ethernet! When i finally bought new ink to it one "pixel" of one color seemed to be dead in the printer :/ A friend borrowed it and then it dissapered. It printed A3. I then bought a HP laserjet IIP in quite bad condition wich had been use at a company making spices. When connected it smelled diffrent spices At my university I saw a lots of HP laserjet 4 in the basement thinking they were broken, a few days later all were gone, and i realised that they worked and people were supposed to take them :/ Only a HP LaserJet IIP remaining, I took it for spareparts to my other one, but this one worked perfectlly. After a while the "skid"-connection that powers the drum went broken and i bought a new one. I then got a Canon LBP4 from a friend which is basically a HP LJ IIP in another costume. Used it for spare parts to my two HP LJ2P's. Theese three where quite troublesome but i had plenty of spare parts. If you own one, here is a Google translated version of my homepage with help/tips and trix for it: http://translate.googleusercontent.c...IgN3Chh2WNMLkg My brother had one and i had one and they where still troublesome. We managed to get one working out of the two (three to begin with and sold it. After this i bought a HP Laserjet 6MP at a sell out at my work. It works perfectlly, and does so still, had it for 4 years. But then i got small Samsung laserprinter from my brother which i use instead for some reason... I should change back. *phew* Thats all I think... |
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