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    From Maz.@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 22 21:59:28 2020
    Zx Printer is bullshit!

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  • From p-0''0-h the cat (coder)@21:1/5 to Maz. on Sat Aug 22 21:57:32 2020
    On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 21:59:28 +0200, "Maz." <mach12009@libero.it> wrote:

    Zx Printer is bullshit!

    Let the anger go. It's been nearly 40 years.

    Sent from my iFurryUnderbelly.

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  • From Duncan Snowden@21:1/5 to Maz. on Mon Aug 24 16:48:05 2020
    On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 21:59:28 +0200
    "Maz." <mach12009@libero.it> wrote:

    Zx Printer is bullshit!

    Yes. Yes, it is.

    (What? You wanted a flamewar about a cheap 40-year-old piece of junk?
    Tough. The Spectrum and the ZX81 were build to a price, but had
    their charms despite everything. That's what we loved about them.
    But the Printer just sucked.)

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  • From Mark Woodmass@21:1/5 to Maz. on Fri Aug 28 11:47:14 2020
    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

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  • From Scribbler@21:1/5 to Mark Woodmass on Sat Aug 29 00:05:00 2020
    Mark Woodmass <enormous.member100@googlemail.com> wrote in news:2cf54a78-215f-491b-9526-90c9ef0053f7n@googlegroups.com:

    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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  • From OldbieOne@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 10 14:16:52 2020
    ZX printer had a weird smell of buring ash and brimstone. At least the
    Timex Sinclair 2040/Alphacom 32 used standard thermal paper, not the
    metalic coating bullcrap that Sinclair used for the ZX printer. It was
    still shit though, just without the smell

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