Arfon Gryffydd wrote:
I have two of these printers (which I bought new from RS) and all the
cartridges I used were plastic film with the black toner-like 'ink'. You
cannot rejuvinate these, you have to buy new. I were still buying these
cartridges from RS a few years ago. Call RSU (800)241-8742 for
replacements. IIRC, these were not only RS cartridges and were for other
machines also.
For Daisy Wheel printers, for typewriters, even for dot-matrix
printers, there are cloth ribbons and plastic carbon/film ribbons.
The film ribbons are one-shots. Period. The film goes from one
spool to the other. They can't be rewound and if you did the
coverage would be spotty. They're the cheap ones that Radio Shack
sold in three-packs for the Daisy Wheels. The cloth ribbons are
continuous loops like most dot-matrix ribbons. The user decides
when the ink is getting too dim, just like with an old-fashioned
typewriter (though most of those reversed the direction of the
ribbon).
Admittedly, in the case of the DWP II, there was well over a year's
delay before the cloth ribbons became available through the stores.
I sent too many customers to the Ricoh dealer as a result, as they
had them and we didn't. Blame Fort Worth -- I was in Los Angeles.
(Wish I was now instead of being eight miles [as the pigeon craps]
from Manhattan).
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