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Steve: That's the printer I'm very interested in. Perhaps you can answer some questions? Everyone has basically given it rave reviews, but a while back I talked to someone at a store that specializes in printers, and she claimed it was very susceptible to print problems in high (or un-optimum) humidity conditions. Have you experienced anything like that? I'm stumped because not a single reviewer (and there have been many) had a problem with that. The other question I had regarded upgradeability. Do you know if TI is going to offer Postscript 2 or any of the other newer page description languages in the future? It seems perfect for that, being that the controller is proprietary and removeable. Any other comments or thoughts? I wrote a nasty letter to TI a few weeks ago, including some of my tech questions, but haven't gotten a reply yet. They seem to use guerrilla tactics to get you on their sales database when you call for tech questions, and you never get to talk to a tech support person anyway, until they call you back. The last time I called there, I'm not sure anyone called me back. In addition, many dealers said the reason you don't see many people carrying it (except now, after there's been 5 different glowing reviews about it) is that TI's distribution policies weren't very friendly to the dealers. Looking at the kind of low-level dealers that TI has managed to sign up, I guess it speaks for itself. Everyone who sells it out here is either a small no-name dealer, or a large office/warehouse/discount store, or someone who primarily sells IC chips and resistors (JDR microdevices…and they're not really in my area anyway- they are actually nice folks out there). + Phil +