Hello all - can someone please tell me the difference between the Commodore MPS 801, 802 and 803 printers as far as performance/print quality. Is an 802 better than an 801? Did some searching, but would like to actual user experience facts. Thank you!

On Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 8:29:09 PM UTC-6, Frodo Baggins wrote:
> Hello all - can someone please tell me the difference between the Commodore MPS 801, 802 and 803 printers as far as performance/print quality. Is an 802 better than an 801? Did some searching, but would like to actual user experience facts. Thank you!

Hi Frodo I own an MPS803 its way smaller, I think its maybe a 9pin printhead.
I had always just used it in GEOS/Wheels with Geowrite and for a Dot Matrix printer the quality is better in GEOS/Wheels since it offers different selections for
print quality. This printer can actually print all of the Petscii characters I believe, even with basic listing printouts. (From Commodore basic).
The MPS 803 at least is only friction feed so continuous paper tends to go sideways and messes up the printout, but you can print just a page at a time so
you can use just photo copy paper. I believe Commodore made a tractor feed mechanism too, for a fact the owner of Commodore4 Ever mentioned he found a
tractor feed for an MPS 803 on Ebay. I bought this little printer used in 1992 so it has been very useful.
Its just if you have long printouts the friction feed tends to mess up, so just 1 sheet of paper at a time works.
If you need any Commodore manuals go to: www.bombjack.org website has just about any Commodore book, etc.
Hope this helps, good luck.