Printronix Line Matrix P5205B

Advantages: 0
Disadvantages: nightmare

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Advantages: Carbon copies
Disadvantages: Only good for text printing

...impossible. Dot matrix printers are used to make carbon copies of things, as you can feed in more than one piece of paper at a time and the characters will strike all bits of paper making a copy. After recieving the printer free I took it home and connected it to my P.C via a USB cable (this was supplied with the printer). I was reliable informed bu my friend that the printer will work on my windows computer and it did. The first thing I printed was some tables of data, they came out fine. The data was visible and not at all hard to read. The speed of the printer eas reasonable, taking only a minute to print about 2 sheets. Since then I have done a few more prints and all but one has been fine. Once the paper got jammed and it took me about 20 minutes to sort it out. I would recommend this product to you if you are a regular user... Read review

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Advantages: not a bad machine
Disadvantages: Mesh support

..., and its still covered by warranty. But, only return to base. They said they would send out return labels. So back it went again! When my pc came back, it was fixed, but the sound was odd. It kept going loud and soft, so I phoned Mesh again. After 45 minutes of; “All our operators are busy. Your call is important to us, please hold” When they answered, I was very abruptly told, “This is a software issue, call our software help line. (Calls are charged at 50p per minute”) I told him, ”That it may be a soft ware issue, but it was one they created” I was told “if you don’t like it, phone customer services, and complain.” This I did. I was told to try reinstalling the sound soft ware, and if that did not work, reinstall windows. I tried the sound software bit, but it made no difference. So I began to reinstall windows. I got... Read review

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