Thank you for the information about the color printers. I was excited
about the Star Micronic 1000 series and finally got the CBM compatible
one but it was 9-pin. I had really wanted to get a 24-pin color printer
and see what it was like. I know was monochrome 24-pin printers were
like from being in college.

Do you know if the Imagewriter II was 18-pin or 9-pin? I always wanted
to sample the color LQ Imagewriter but I don't think there were any
printer drivers for the CBM 8-bits that could drive a printer like that
to the max, were there (even with GEOS)?

I've been looking at the Amiga 4000 and hearing about the printing
programs. Do you know if they had print/preview in color and if they
offered color printing as a support? I saw where Printshop and
Printmaster were made for the Amiga 4000. I would like to see a screen
shot of those programs running on the Amiga if someone has a screen shot
of that.
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tom metzger wrote:
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> Hey gang,
>
> Color printers did make a nice Christmas present in 1984. The Okimate
> 10 was affordable color printing, although it was a thermal printer
> and required good paper for decent printouts. It was also slow at
> graphics printing.
>
> Given the evidence of Okidata later coming out with an Okimate 20, I
> think sales of these printers for Commodores were pretty good.
>
> Also, Epson produced a dot-matrix impact printer with a COLOR ribbon,
> or ribbons. I can't remember the technology design they used , perhaps
> it was a ribbon that had 3 "stripes" of color on it, but I remember
> the advertising of it and apparently it was compatible with software
> like Print Master. I saw this advertised 1985/1986.
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