"William L. Brandt" wrote:
>
> Someone in town is closing up and offering to give us one - I tried doing a
> search on the HP website and couldn't find anything.
>
> We need print quality on heavy (post card) stock - our old 2566A has been
> fine but parts are getting hard to come by -
>
> Need near letter quality printing - anyone know if this can do the job?

I "think" the LPQ-1500 is the new and improved LPQ-1200.  We replaced
some 2566s with an LPQ-1200 about 4 years ago.  They take some getting
used to (in our case, using them as a networked printer with a Jet
Direct card) over the old HP-IB 2566s.

It doesn't handle multipart forms very well (we had some 5-part ones
that it did poorly on), and it doesn't print as "dark" as the 2566.
Using OCR-grade ribbons helps (we have some Scan-Tron forms that are
"pre-slugged" with the page numbers and they have to be read by the
scanner).

The 1500 may have improved some of these issues.

Jeff

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