On 10/20/2015 04:18 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
I thought Fedron was the go-to solvent for the printing / ink industry? It's also used to clean rubber parts, iirc.
I demurred on Fedron as it contains xylol. Some print heads have plastic parts and I'm not sure how it would affect those--it's also a paint/lacquer solvent. Same situation for toluol. Alky seems to be the mildest of the lot. Freon TF would, of course, be my choice...
Interesting point about the single-side vs. trad. cloth ribbons. I'm using a cheap-o replacement in my Panasonic "Quiet" Color KXT 24-pin (NLQ). I don't recall what ribbon was in it when it arrived, other than it was totally shot. I only use black ribbons, the color are no use to me - and terribly expensive.
The film ribbons are single-pass only--there's a supply spool in the cartridge. Once the supply side is gone into the stuffer box--it's gone. I've found that plain IBM typewriter film ribbon works to refill the HP-style carts.
I don't care much for multicolor ribbons. They're great on the first pass, but then the colors get contaminated with the ink left on the printhead. After awhile, the yellow turns to a dirty yellow color.
--Chuck
