From: nospam.Ron.Lauzon@f1.n770.z3412.fidonet.org   
      
   -=> J.B. Wood wrote to Ron Lauzon <=-   
      
    JW> Hello, and IIRC there was a C-64 color printer that used 4 ballpoint   
    JW> pens.  Don't know what commercially-available apps might have been   
    JW> available that would use it, though.  Sincerely,   
      
   Yes, I have the Radio Shack version of it (several printers used the same ALPS   
   mechanism - including my TRS-80 PC-2).   
      
   They weren't ball point, but rather stiff markers and it was closer to a   
   printer/plotter than the color printers that we know today.  They are really   
   nice for printing some text and doing plotting-style drawing, but aren't very   
   good at making nice, full color printers.   
      
   But they would have worked out well with Print Shop.  But, again, I don't   
   believe that something like that was commonly used by the C-64 users and, so,   
   Broderbund wouldn't have seen much market for a color Print Shop.   
      
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