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Re: Zx Printer

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Mark Woodmass <enormous.member100@googlemail.com> wrote in 
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> On Saturday, 22 August 2020 at 20:59:29 UTC+1, Maz. wrote:
>> Zx Printer is bullshit!
> 
> My mate had an Alphacom 32. That wasn't great either :p

In my many, many years of computing, I've yet to have a printer that I'm 
100% happy with. Granted, I never had one for the spectrum, not seeing 
the need for one, as all ir was used for was games, but yes, I'm quite 
sure, there'd be a lot of 4-letter words thrown around if I did have one

My first one was a Panasonic KX-P2123. Originally purchased in the mid 
90s for me to do homeworks on, I pretty much used the entire ribbon to 
print Speccy screenshots (oooh, on topic!), and maybe used it once or 
twice for its intended purpose of homework.

It was always constantly jamming if you used the tractor feed paper, and 
always misaligning if you used A4, and as everything was done on a 
budget in our house, the colour ribbons we got were shockingly bad.

Then, one day, a friend of my dad's, a lorry driver, came over with a 
floppy disk and his route for the next working day. I went to switch on 
the printer, aaaaaaaaand nothing. Not a sausage. No head moving, no 
LEDS, just stone cold dead.

Usual troubleshooting of cable swapping etc. proved fruitless, so I took 
it into the back garden and gave it a damn good smashing with a brick. 
If I could go back to my 15 year old self, I'd plead to not smash 
anything up just because of what may have been a simple fix.

Since then, I've had successions of inkjet and laser printers, all built 
down to a price. They barely last one ink cartidge change before they 
start jamming up and the print quality suffers immeasurably.

So yes, although I never used one, I'm sure that the original ZX printer 
did indeed have its flaws, but I'm sure that if it wasn't for this bit 
of kit, we'd have far less listings in magazines and the like, so I, for 
one, dip my hat to the humble silver bog-rolled monstrousity.

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used xnews, it's gone bye-bye.

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