What is the 'official' A500+ printer?

[sim085]

If when I went to buy my A500+ I also wanted to buy a printer then what would have commodore dealer sold me?

I tried to find a page with all commodore printers and date released but could not find one

Regards,
Simon J.

[gertsy]

I used to use a Star NX1000 (Colour) dot matrix on my A2000. Circa 1990. Yes that's close to 20 years ago now. I think any Epson LX/RX compatible dot matrix clone worked fine with the Amiga. or the original dunnydoor printer.
These days a postscript laser or HP laserjet is fine. I have a laserjet 4 that works fine via the parrallel port.

I don't think there was an original Amiga printer. The CBM 1525 or MPS1200 ?.  Epsons were more available and ribbons were cheap.

Cheers.

[Jiffy]

The CBM 1525 or MPS1200 ?.

Certainly not the CBM 1525, which predates any Amiga by a considerable margin and was intended for the 8 bit line of Commodores.

I used a Star LC24/10 with my A500. 24 pins dot matrix printers were very popular in that day and age, more so than the 9 pins variants which were already losing ground.

Tbh, I hardly ever saw a Commodore printer back then. Everyone owning a Commodore machine, whether it was a C64/128 or any Amiga was using a non-Commodore printer.

Star (9 & 24 pins), NEC (24 pins) and Epson (9 & 24 pins) were by far the most popular. I still have an Epson LQ570+ I use every now and then...

[sim085]

... where inkjet already available when the A500+ was out? or only the dot-matrix existed?

[Tension]

I had a MPS 803 for the C64, and it never printed a thing. Shite.

[Orphan264]

I don't know about "official", but I had a Commodore MPS-1000 back in the day. Dot matrix printer in white color matching Amiga 500. Also look into MPS-1200 and MPS-1250.. there may be more.. and I do remember there was a Commodore branded ink-jet... but it's model number escapes me at the moment.

[cpfuture]

That would be the MPS-1270. A nice little inkjet I used to own in the early 90's. I always found it to be the "official" Amiga printer.

[JC]

I had an okimate 20, I believe. I really had a lot of fun with that thing even though it was fairly slow. It was a thermal printer and the color cartridge was sort of like a cassette tape. I remember having printed out some digitized pics with it that were pretty impressive for the time.

[Ilwrath]

Depends on what time period and country you went into an Amiga/Commodore dealer.  

If you wandered into a random North American C= dealer in the late 80's to very early 90's and said "Show me a printer for my Amiga 500," you'd have likely ended up with a Star or Epson dot-matrix printer.  

Again, for the US, I believe there were some early inkjet/bubblejet printers out in that time period, but they weren't common on the Amiga.  It wasn't until the A1200 era in the mid 90's that the HP, Canon, and Epson inkjets were commonly used on Amigas.

[zipper]

I got my 500 in '91 bundled with Amstrad DMP 4000 9-pin printer.
...wow, somebody has written a Vista driver for it...

[Boudicca]

Im sure the a500 was bundled by many a dealer with a star lc24/10

Someone else had one too.....http://www.flickr.com/photos/elsie/105716382/

[beller]

Many folks had Epson JX-80 color dot matrix printers which worked great with the Amiga.  I purchased the first model of the HP DeskJet (nearly $1k at the time) and, with the help of some 3rd party printer drivers, it was my main Amiga printer from the late '80s to the mid-90s.

[sim085]

Well my main concern is if buying a dot-matrix printer or an inkjet. What scares me is if cartriges will be available and their potential life time. About the latter, I know several dot-matrix printers are still used today!

[toRus]

@Ilwrath

That's nonsense. Amiga magazines were full of Xerox 4020 and HP PaintJet/DeskJet advertisments when all PC users knew was jsut Star LC-10 ;-)

[alexh]

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