you re ink the old ribbon... used to do that with tty ribbons.... the 14 inch line printer width...... messy but doable.... I remember having to make a dried ribbon a bit juicer one time strung it between to poles in the parkinlot and sprayed I think it was a litte wd-40 on it.... an rolled her back up! I was lucky when I had computer business... printer would come in with extra ribbons I would keep a few for shelf stock... in 13 years never had to buy any.... It was the absolute filters I always had to be buying new! only once did I get a drive with a couple extra new ones Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 6/24/2015 1:20:05 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, pontus at Update.UU.SE writes: On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:14:00PM -0700, jwsmobile wrote: I just experienced the same thing with my newly found DATASAAB D16. Google turns up three worthwhile mentions and whole host of ribbon resalers. I kind of assumed that the printer ribbon was the same as something else and still awailable. Assuming I am wrong, what should I do to get a printer ribbon with fresh ink? /P