Commodore Amiga - Page 82

Adding a Disk Drive to the Amiga
The Amiga External 3.5 Disk Drive is identical in storage capacity and
performance to the disk drive built into the Amiga. To attach this drive,
you simply plug it into the external disk connector on the back of the
Amiga. A second disk drive makes it easier and faster to perform many
operations, such as copying disks.
Printers for the Am iga
There are five types of printers you can use with an Amiga:
• the Epson® FX-SO'M and RX-SO'M and the CBM® MPS 1000
dot-matrix printers. With these printers, you can produce both
text and monochrome graphics.
• the Alphacom® Alphapro 101 "', Brother® H R-15XL,
Diablo® Advantage D25, Diablo® 630, and Qume® LetterPro
20'M letter-quality printers. These print text identical to that
produced by high-quality typewriters. They are, however,
slower than most dot-matrix printers and cannot print graphics.
• the Okimate 20'M and Epson® JX-SO'M color printers. To use
the Okimate 20 with the Amiga, you also need an Okidata
"Plug' n Print" cartridge designed to connect the Okimate 20 to
the parallel port of an IBM® PC. The Okimate 20 and the
Epson JX-SO can print color images from the Amiga, including
paintings you create with Graphicraft'M.
•
the Diablo® C-150 color printer. This printer uses advanced
ink-jet technology to produce high-quality color images.
• Hewlett-Packard LaserJet'M and LaserJet PL U S 'M laser printers.
You use the Preferences tool to tell the Amiga which printer you're using
and to change a number of settings that affect printers. To learn about
Preferences, see Chapter 7.
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