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The Radio Shack TRS-80 CGP-220 (Cat. No. 26-1268) is a color inkjet printer. "CGP" stands for "Color Graphics Printer" and the 220 was the second and final printer in Radio Shack's CGP series (the first was the CGP-115, which was actually a plotter rather than a printer). The 220 debuted in 1984's RSC-10, p.31 with a list price of $699. Like many Tandy products sold through Radio Shack, it was a licensed (and customized) version of another company's design, namely the Canon PJ-1080A, which Canon licensed out to many other manufacturers as well, including IBM [1].
Every CGP-220 came bundled with a cassette containing a CoCo color screen dump program in machine language. This despite the CGP-220 also being compatible with, and marketed to, non-CoCo and even non-Tandy/Radio Shack computer owners. This shows how committed to the CoCo Tandy was at the time, and helped to raise the CoCo's profile outside the CoCo community.
The CGP-220 actually had the same Motorola 6809E CPU that the CoCo had, as well as the same 4K RAM the original CoCo came with.
Articles
[edit | edit source]Overall, the CGP-220 was well-received by reviewers.
| Review | Author | Magazine | Y | M | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The CGP-220 Ink Jet Printer | Linda Miller | TRS-80 Microcomputer News | 83 | 10 | 53 |
| Color Ink Jet Printer Is Sensational CoCo Peripheral | Lonnie Falk | The Rainbow | 83 | 11 | 242 |
| Technicolour Tandy | Bill Davies | Personal Computer News | 83 | 12 | 35 |
| A Member of the Ink-Jet Set | Mark Zachmann | PC Magazine | 84 | 02 | 226 |
| Printing Power | Michael Matts | Dragon User | 84 | 03 | 20 |
| TRS-80 Strings: CGP-220 Seven-Color Ink Jet Printer | Stephen B. Gray | Creative Computing | 84 | 06 | 226 |
| Radio Shack CGP-220 | Vincent Puglia | PC Magazine | 84 | 11 | 358 |
| Meet the Jet Set | Phillip Johnson | Popular Computing | 84 | 12 | 110 |
| Color Me Beautiful: Radio Shack's CGP-220 Color Printer | Bradford N. Dixon | 80 Micro | 85 | 01 | 36 |
Accessories
[edit | edit source]| Name | Cat. No. | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Ink Pack | 26-1281 | 9.95 | |
| Tri-Color Ink Pack | 26-1282 | 14.95 | |
| Roll Paper (3 rolls) | 26-1333 | 9.95 | "Recommended for best print quality" |
| 8½ x 11" Paper (250 sheets) | 26-1341 | 6.95 | |
| Dust Cover | 26-0533 | 4.95 | RSC-10, p. 33 |
