Canon A-1200 and A-1210 Printers

[NeXT]

I can't help but notice on the Canon AS-100 that there are four landing points on the top of the system specifically to place one of Canon's printers and that they have gone far enough to add handlers into DOS specifically for two printers.

One is the Canon A-1200 "wire dot printer" (just call it a dot-matrix, guys) and the other which is more interesting because I didn't think the technology was being shipped yet, the Canon A-1210 COLOR Inkjet printer.

I swear a year or two back someone here on the forum was selling the color inkjet but since then I've never seen another one and I cannot find any information on either printer. They are completely lost in Canon's modern printing products. The only thing I can suspect is that possibly Canon came up with a new model number for existing printers they were selling? The A-1200 looks extremely similar to the Canon PW-1080A and the A-1210 likewise looks exactly like the Canon PJ-1080A. Does this sound about right?

 

[Plasma]

Looks correct. The 1983 AS-100 brochure also has the A-1250. The new model numbers have a more logical pattern.

A-1200 -> PW-1080A = Personal Wire, 80 column, revision A
A-1250 -> PW-1156A = Personal Wire, 156 column, revision A
A-1210 -> PJ-1080A = Personal inkJet, 80 column, revision A

I don't think the A-1210 was actually for sale before 1984, although it was demonstrated in September 1983. Canon might have changed the model numbers shortly afterward, to prevent customer confusion because 1210 is "less" than 1250.