HX20 (was: Re: Just bought this . . .)

From: Max Eskin <kurtkilg_at_geocities.com>
Date: Thu Dec 10 19:36:27 1998

> > The HX20 printer is quite interesting. It's got 4 print solenoids/pins on
> > a little 'shuttle', spaced 5 characters apart in the same horizontal
> > line. A motor/scroll cam assembly wobbles this backwards and forwards
> > across the paper and moves the paper up one dot line for ever complete
> > movement of the shuttle. The HX20 electronics sends appropriately timed
> > pulses to the solenoids to put dots on the paper. It is an impact
> > printer, of course.

May I ask, why do this when it's probably easier to use 9 vertically
aligned pins like the rest of the civilized dot matrix world? (Except for
engineering chauvinism, that is)

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Received on Thu Dec 10 1998 - 19:36:27 GMT