20 Oct
2015
20 Oct
'15
5:19 p.m.
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