Well, I've been in the market to buy a portable printer for my Laptop when
I am traveling and vacationing.  We don't talk much about printers on this
list but I am sure some of you use them...  As a Duo owner, small is
good...

(1) I am considering using a plain vanilla Stylewriter printer as a
"portable".  Take off the Cut sheet feeder, and it's pretty darn small.  I
suppose that it's relatively cheap for me to go this route....

(2) What I really want is a truly portable printer.
My criteria by preference: simple; compact and light; battery powered;
color capable; amount of Cable/adapter mess

So far, my favorite is the Pentax Pocket Jet I  It's a thermal printer
which uses special cut sheet paper.  It will run off a battery for 30+
prints, requires no ink and will use a simple Mac modem cable with an HP
Laserjet driver.  300dpi B&W and extremely tiny.

The Portable Stylewriters are always in high demand and expensive.  the
ink's pricey too.  So I think not...

The Deskjet 300 series seem to be compatible with the right cable (or I
suppose my Power Print cable will work too).  they fold out really nicely
into a larger-format size. Which model do you like?  What's the average
price?  how expensive are ink carts?

By the way, Something which got lost from the era of the "luggables" was
piggyback printing.  There were some VERY nice and small 8 or 9 pin dot
matrix printers made to fit a small area  They actually were hooked up to
the back of a laptop.  No extra power cable, no print cable...  Would have
been neat to get a Docking printer for my Duo...


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