Silicon Sam wrote:
It was the C.Itoh 8510. NEC made a model just like it, they called it the 8023. I fixed many, many of them. The first C.Itoh Apple used they called the DMP, had a parallel port, like the 8510. Then they decided to go serial port, redesigned and called it the Imagewriter. Even had a 15" wide version, of which I owned a couple at one time.
Yep, and a remarkable printer mechanism. You can still hear these little tanks whining today in many places where a multi-part form is printed. I understand that fixing them is pretty straightforward, it's breaking them that's hard. ;-) Their heavy duty construction is no doubt one of the reasons that Apple selected them as the basis for their DMPs. -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."