18 Apr
2013
18 Apr
'13
4:35 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Jules Richardson wrote:
On 04/16/2013 12:44 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
The power supply in these printers is very simple, so even if it isn't
working it shouldn't be that hard to repair. With the US versions of these
printers at least, they just used a plain 3-conductor flat cord with a
NEMA 5-15P plug. Unlike a lot of the later inkjet printers, these printers
don't have a safety switch for the top cover, and while they will work
without one, they will be much, much louder.
Which side of the pond are you on? There is a chance I might still have a
top cover in my box of printer plastics that would work, but I may have
already given them all away (I had several extras at one time). I used to
get a box of this sort of stuff at the end of each of the university
auctions. Both the uni and auction company loved it because they didn't
have to get someone else to throw this stuff out or haul it to the dump.
On 04/16/2013 06:27 AM, Tom Sparks wrote:
In a weird bit of synchronicity, I found a KX-P1123E at the dump earlier
:-) Missing its top cover, but I think it should be [theoretically]
operable without it. The power cord's been lopped off, but that might be
as a result of some H+S worry rather than an indication that there's
anything actually wrong with it.
I don't have any fanfold paper here right now, but I expect I can
manually feed some regular paper and at least verify that the print head
is functional. I've got my dot-matrix printer yesterday, I
tried it today its a
PANASONIC KX-P1121E[1], I got it from ebay[2] i've only tried it on my
windows XP system (please shot me :) )
Nice! Panasonic makes EXCELLENT impact printers.