In message <[email protected]>, Bryan Horstmann
<[email protected]> writes
On 08/03/2012 10:24, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In message <[email protected]>, Bryan Horstmann
<[email protected]> writes
I use an old Fujitsu DL1150 dot matrix printer which does me fine,
and will still work with Vista. It has been difficult to get
ribbons; there is a lot of old, dried out stock around. I've found
www.cartridgesave.co.uk, a small company locally in Stockport with
ribbons, with fair prices including delivery so no shocks at the
checkout. My particular model is "110 chrs" that is it takes A4
landscape and so will print portrait on A3. I find that this gives
me useful extra space for spreadsheets: I used to do an A5 magazine
on the QL too, paired pages together. Unfortunately Vista won't
always recognise this and then insists on turning it round!
Hi Bryan,
There are 'recharge' kits available, for dot matrix ribbons.
A 'quick and dirty' method is to use "Ink Pad ink", which is more
readily available - 'quick' part. You then need to apply it inside the
ribbon container.
The latter is the 'dirty' part ... as it can get messy ..... :-(
Of course, it helps to have more than one ribbon cartridge, so that
the better one is reserved for when the best quality is required.
Thanks, Malcolm. The Fujitsu ribbons are compact and travel with the
printhead. They have short ribbon and rely on a plastic sponge
reservoir and feed strip. With age both perish, and don't feed the
ribbon. They dismantle quite easily when one has acquired the knack,
and I have fitted proper felt to some. I've resisted using "ink pad
ink" as I worry about jammed pins on the printhead; proper re-inking
fluid seemed to have disappeared. However, as I can get a few new for
£6.15 each, I'll put my re-cycling effort into other things, rather
than ribbon re-cycling kits. At 85 we unfortunately aren't offered
"re-cycling kits" (woodland burial perhaps?), but there is a lot to
think about to mitigate deterioration.
Hi Bryan,
As you say, it is where you decide to put the effort.
I kept a Citzen Dot Matrix printer going, for a long time, with Ink Pad
attention trick.
Which was good for program listings, and the like.
--
Malcolm Cadman
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