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New 'jets' pass speed, colour tests

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I REMEMBER the first inkjet printer I ever used. It belonged to my uncle and it was big, slow, noisy and cumbersome.

Colour printing meant opening up the case and swapping the black ink cartridge for a three colour one. Colours were dingy and you couldn't reproduce colour and black on the same page.

Photographs you say? Forget it. Printing a low resolution, full page colour photo took so long that we used to start printing just before lunch time. That way when we came back, we only had to wait another 15 or 20 minutes for something that looked like a enlargement of a Polaroid.

Things have changed since my uncle's clunker was state of the art.

The two new printers, the Lexmark Color Jetprinter 1020 and the Hewlett-Packard 850c prove the point.

The Lexmark is a PC compatible machine which prints in colour or black and white at a rate of 2ppm for black and 2-4 mpp for colour. The local price, $1,880, includes a copy of Corel Draw 3.

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