24 Jul
2018
24 Jul
'18
11:11 a.m.
> Has printerworks gone under?
> Their website is unresponsive.
> Does anybody have scans of their CX and SX "catalogs"?
On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Ali wrote:
I can verify that I cannot access printerworks either.
I checked and I had
made PDFs of printer specific pages for printers that I own or were
interested in (e.g. LG IIID, 4si, 2100, 5500, etc.) This has the info for
the parts, toner, specs, etc. I do not have the engine specific pages. Nor
do I have the page which talks about painting old FedEx printers (I had
accessed it before but it is not in my cache either).
https://web.archive.org/web/20180102194732/http://www.printerworks.com/Cata…
The "wayback machine"/archive.org provides at least a temporary recovery:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171209065451/http://www.printerworks.com:80/C…
BUT!
If Printerworks HAS gone under, that does not make it "abandonware".
At one time, Printerworks SOLD dead-tree copies, so it is legaally
established both as copyrighted, and as having monetry value.
There may be creditors who now own the "intellectual property", who might
think that they can make back some of their debts. In which case, they
may insist that archive.org remove those pages (YES, they can do that!).
So, if somebody has a convenient way to archive a copy, . . .
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com