<It would help rather more to know what kind of printer it is. The fact <that it's a DECmate narrows down the range of possible printers somewhat, <but really isn't enough. there were three common ones used with it. LQP02 (daisy wheel), LA50 and the LA75. Are we sure the failed belt is not the RX50? <Although I'd strongly recommend that anyone still using a DECmate for real <work give some serious consideration to moving to something a bit more DECmate II/IIIs are common enough a spare could be found. More likely the RX50 fails and they can be found. An DMIII is a more modern substitute and they tend to have long lives. What is missed is that a DM with all the other packages also has far more than word processing capability. Those are not easily duplicated on a PC running wordstar. Allison