11 Jan
2012
11 Jan
'12
2:22 p.m.
On 11 January 2012 09:46, <jonas at otter.se> wrote:
[Facit Printers]
Yes, you do want one (or two) of those :-)
I used them a lot during the '80s. We had one at work as our main printer
for listings etc, and we sold a bunch to a customer who used them for
printing pallet labels with barcodes and large text used on their production
line for submersible pumps, in a dirty industrial environment. They were
built like tanks.
I can testify to the built like tanks comment - at one time Facit
printers were the principle brand sold by an ex-employer of mine for
printing invoices, delivery notes, picking lists etc., mostly on
multi-part forms, and we never seemed to have any issues coming back
They were a dot matrix, very fast and had a pneumatic
bladder under
the head to lean it forward to the platten.
Zinc diecast case I think
iirc one 4040 did machine control the other was input buffer/character
set to pin pattern
I suddently want one of these :-) I can't see it would be worth shipping,
so I am unlikely to get one, but it sure sounds fun....
from them despite theire being subjected to a very hard
life in some
quite challenging environments at times - the cheaper Epsons and the
like were forever being carted backwards and forwards between customer
and repairer... (Maybe that's why he stopped selling them; no repeat
business!)
I have no idea if they, or the customers, have any still kicking about
- we parted ways end of 2004 - but if you (Tony) want to find out,
contact me off-list for their details.
Rob