#Star XB-2410
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Can anybody tell me if there is a printer driver available for the Star
XB-2410 printer? If one is not available, how well does the Printer Driver
Generator program work in general?
Also, has anyone had any experience with this printer? It looks impressive
to me and if I can find a driver, I might buy it.
<<< Michael Shea >>>>
<<< 76665,3360 >>>>
Michael –
You don't need to find a printer driver for the XB2410, there are two
drives in WB1.3 that already work well with this printer. The EpsonQ
driver will work and the NEC_Pinwriter will also work. The entire Star
line of printers are pretty much Espson clones and will work with those
drivers. The XB2410 also can emulate the NEC and I find that driver to
work just a little better than the EspsonQ. The NEC will go to the maximun
density (#7) of 360×360, while the EspsonQ drive only goes to density #4 of
180 x 180 (I think, could be alittle higher – but not as high as the NEC).
I have been using the XB2410 for almost a year now and find it to be a
excellent printer. I publish a newsletter using ProPage and this printer,
the NEC_Pinwriter driver and the 360×360 density really makes for a print
out that compares with the laser printers.
The XB2410 has some excellent paper handling features and a good selection
of built in fonts, as well as many other nice features – including the
optional color upgrade! (Both drivers will work in the color mode also)
I'm right now having a sale on my Star Printers and have the XB2410 priced
at $450 – the color upgrade is $47 dollars. If you would like some sample
print outs from this printer, send me your address via E-mail, and I'll
send you a few things.
– Roy Pahnke – Crazy Mountain Software
Casper, Wyomin' – 1-800-76 AMIGA
Michael: I bought an XB-2410 after thinking over the market for 24-pin
printers pretty hard. I had a 9-pin Panasonic KXP1091 so was disposed
toward the Panasonic 1124. But the XB-2410 was too good a deal to pass up,
what with all its on-board fonts, color option, quiet mode, etc. It's been
running fine for me with my MS-DOS machine and the Amiga. It emulates an
IBM Proprinter and an Epson Q series printer, so drivers already are
available; but you're right, if someone did a custom driver for this
printer, it'd be a heckuva useful tool. By the way, with color option I
paid under $440. I'm told it was such a hot seller there for awhile that
prices have gone back up a tad.