Word processing and printers

[mr_a500]

I'd say the best wordprocessors for the Amiga are FinalWriter 97 and Wordworth 7. PageStream is good, but is DTP and not really fun to use as a wordprocessor (I only have version 3.2 though). Unfortunately all these are commercial.

I also use an Epson Stylus C62. I bought TurboPrint 7 to get the drivers. I do NOT recommend either TurboPrint 7 or the Epson Stylus C62. I had some half decent printouts, but TurboPrint is buggy and constantly crashed (with badly worded error messages). Printing a full page image in medium-low resolution took exactly 1 hour!

If you've got another computer, save yourself the hassle and don't print from the Amiga.

[mr_a500]

Believe me! That was not because of the printer! ;-)

No, I know. It was because of TurboPrint. Maybe people with >16Mb RAM have better experiences with TurboPrint. Let me put it this way: if you have less than 16Mb RAM, DO NOT BUY TURBOPRINT. I don't know why the makers of TurboPrint don't specify 16Mb as a minimum requirement in their documentation. (they told me AFTER I bought it - actually about a year after, the time they took to answer my repeated polite email requests)

The reason I say I don't recommend the Epson C62 is because the colour ink runs out after 15-20 image prints, it won't print b/w text without the colour cartridge and the ink cardridges dry out if not used for a few weeks.