10 Aug
2011
10 Aug
'11
1:27 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
In those days, it was readily available in USA. We bought a "kit" that
consisted of some toner, a torx compatible screwdrive (not made by Torx),
and a single page of instructions for disassembly, clean, refill, and
assembly. We bought the CX version, and the lab staff used it on PC
cartridge, with a reverse video "solarized" like effect. Later, we bought
the toner by itself in small bulk quantities.
I have no idea what other copiers use toner that might be compatible. If
you can solve THAT issue, then many copiers distribute their toner in
cartridges that are little more than a plastic jar.
That's why I put their statement in quotes. Technically presumably
totally inaccurate, but quite adequately expressive.
I don't
know. 20+ years ago, we bought toner intended for them.
I've never seen such
stuff over here :-( The staff in
the computer lab learned the hard way that PC and CX
cartridges were NOT the same, didn't fit the other machine, and the toner
was "of reversed polarity"
I am not sure what that last bit means.
Certainly at least one of the
corona wires is of the opposite polarity between the printer and
photocopier (that's how you get write-for-black in the printer nad
write-for-white in the copier). I beleiuve the toner powDer is
different,
but I am not sure how,
When you find out the difference, share it with us, and then we will have
correct terminology, rather than "of reversed polarity".
IIRC, the FedEx model was a silly colour (but
that's just the casing
parts) and had different clock crystals so that the scanner motor ran
faster. I think it did 400dpi or so (as against the 300 dpi of the normal
model).
That is exactly my recollection as well. Why was it purple? I could see
UPS wanting BROWN, but I don't recall Fedex obsessing over purple.
I suspec the only people still running such things now
are those who have
classic machines with the direct video interface and can't use a more
modern printer.
Exactly.
IF any of them happen to turn up, should I flag for you:
Eiconscript (imitation Postscript and HPLJ emulation, with memory for 286)
JLASER (multiple versions, the "plus" model includes an interface for
Canon scanner mechanism)
Cordata/Corona Data Systems (software, which is probably no longer
anywhere near the board) refuses to run on 286, easy to use YAFIYGI
interface, and support for it (and LJ) by the Poems Font Editor
DC37 ABC switch
I was unable to stop the college from dumpstering the LJII (SX), which had
an add-in board for JLASER support, which PROBABLY would have permitted
upgrading most CX external interface to SX. SX had a very noticably
better black than CX, apparently due to having a toner blob larger than
(circumscribed) the addreeable box, rather than inscribed. The IIID found
a happy enthusiastic home.