Re: Silentype Printer; how does it compare?

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

"Steven M. Fish" wrote:

> - Silentype's operation was very quiet, about as loud as sliding your
> finger across a piece of paper.
>
> - It originally sold for $599 in June 1979.
>
> - The printing looked very much like that produced by a dot-matrix
> printer.
>
> - After the Silentype printer was released in 1979, Apple looked for
> another printer that would produce better, more permanent output t
>
> - The Apple ImageWriter (made by C. Itoh) was released in December 1983.

I haven't read the FAQ, but there was another printer made by C. Itoh between
the Silentype and the first Imagewriter, and that was the Apple DMP. I don't
remember the C. Itoh model number, but the Apple version was merely relabeled
with some alterations to the ROM code in the printer. BTW, the printer ribbon
in the DMP is the same as for the first two Imagewriters.

Roy