On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 03:01:32 +0000, Bastiaan Edelman wrote:
> Hello List,
> Two years ago I bought a new printer: Xerox J5 and paid just over a 100
> dollars.
> Last year the ink cartridge was empty and the special cartridge was not
> in the shops... HP, Cannon, all kinds but no Xerox.
> Well the shopowner ordered a cartridge and I had to pay just under a 100
> dollars. (Just black ink, no color)
Dear Bastiaan:
This sort of thing makes me so mad..... congratulations on your win!
I still run a dot matrix printer, and its ribbons are only $10 and very
reliable. New ones are actually good enough for most purposes, and I
even have a 4 colour ribbon for a 24 pin Epson! (Cant find any DOS
drivers though after lots of good leads from this list)
I tried reinking a dot matrix printer ribbon with far worse result than
you describe... first it made a gigantic mess, then worked badly for a
little while and then dried out and seized up. That was with stamp pad
ink. Perhaps biro refill ink?
By the way, I dropped my widebed Epson over a cliff (accidentally) and
it actually worked after reassembly - it fell a clear 30 metres and we
had to collect bits of it with a rope.
Bye
Kali
http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali
