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| John-Del <ohger1s@gmail.com>: Oct 24 09:46AM -0700 > if you do only occasional printing and in BW only, really get yourself an inexpensive LASER printer. > Much less hassle > m Totally agree. My last freaking piece of shit printer was an Epson. The damned thing said it was down on one color (allegedly) and not only would it refuse to print in B&W, but refused to even scan documents until I gave it it's cyan fix. My first printer was a HP Deskjet 500 and that thing would print tons of pages, was silent as the night, and never gave me trouble. I stupidly retired it when color injets became cheaper. That was the beginning of the printer wars with me as the French resistance. I picked up a cheap HP B&W laser printer two years ago and won't ever look back. I don't need color and I don't need to worry about half full ink cartridges jamming up or refusing to identify themselves as authentic Epson cartridges. The laser printer is the closest thing to my old Deskjet for reliablility, and it's a hell of a lot faster than any comparable injet. |
| "Ian Field" <gangprobing.alien1@virginmedia.com>: Oct 24 07:48PM +0100 <etpm@whidbey.com> wrote in message news:nhlsucplg180lvqcb37i0m6mu613oav4no@4ax.com... > cart is almost full. Much easier than my home printer where I have to > add ink through a drilled hole using a syringe. > Eric I use the refilling syringe on the felt pad - but it has to be done slowly. |
| "Ian Field" <gangprobing.alien1@virginmedia.com>: Oct 24 07:51PM +0100 "John-Del" <ohger1s@gmail.com> wrote in message news:240c0de2-ab6c-4388-86c4-cb89d1457786@googlegroups.com... > damned thing said it was down on one color (allegedly) and not only would > it refuse to print in B&W, but refused to even scan documents until I gave > it it's cyan fix. My last Epson was DM with a ribbon cartridge. |
| tabbypurr@gmail.com: Oct 24 04:00PM -0700 On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:51:44 UTC+1, Ian Field wrote: > > it refuse to print in B&W, but refused to even scan documents until I gave > > it it's cyan fix. > My last Epson was DM with a ribbon cartridge. I fitted mine with a re-inker. But eventually ribbon wear causes pin jam. NT |
| Colin Horsley <horsley-spam@westnet.com.au>: Oct 25 10:07AM +1100 >> My last Epson was DM with a ribbon cartridge. > I fitted mine with a re-inker. But eventually ribbon wear causes pin jam. > NT Tell me more about the re-inker. I am still using an NEC Pinwriter P5200 !! Colin --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
| tabbypurr@gmail.com: Oct 24 05:55PM -0700 On Wednesday, 25 October 2017 00:07:04 UTC+1, Colin Horsley wrote: > Tell me more about the re-inker. > I am still using an NEC Pinwriter P5200 !! > Colin Ah, multipart forms presumably. Put a full height pad inside the cart where the ribbon would be pulled past it, either on the ribbon output or input, I forget which. Drilled a hole in the cart top for ink & countersunk it. You can go further by adding a tiny plastic offcut to act as a miniature funnel. Now just put however many drops of ink in the funnel and it reinks the ribbon as you go. There is some tendency to reink a third of the length and not the rest, so little & often rather than one big glug. ISTR a mix of printer's ink & meths being good, though you can use cheaper mixes. I'm pretty sure I used to use paraffin as the liquid base. You can add ready made ink or a cheap dye. Violet is cheapest but fades right away in time. Costs vary a lot per colour. They're the same price per gram but violet goes a lot further than black. For dark colours, mix red, green, etc then add a little black to darken it. Here we go: blue is the cheapest permanent colour. Pence per amount of result: violet 13 blue 17 red 21 green 25 yellow 35 black £1 brown £2.36 There is a major problem with reinking to beware of. As the ribbon wears at some point it can catch a pin occasionally. This kills print heads, don't overdo the reinking. NT |
| Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>: Oct 24 04:10PM -0700 On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 21:52:08 +0100, Mike Coon >So perhaps the alternative is to strap the unit to your body and take it >(still wet) on a roller-coaster. It may not help but hopefully was >enjoyable! Long ago (about 1968), in a place far far away (Orange County, CA), I used to go to the 25 cent do it myself car wash to clean older commercial 2-way radios: <http://www.wb6nvh.com/Moto42/Moto42.htm> One problem was the rubber insulation on the wires would harden, crumble, and fall off. If that happened, I would spray the exposed solid wires with fake Christmas spider web decoration spray, which provided some insulation and a stabilizing web. Another was hygroscopic paper capacitors, which needed replacement anyway. Of course, everything had to be retuned from scratch, but that was expected. During the early 1970's, I did much the same when cleaning marine radios. Fortunately, the wire was PVC or PTFE, so no spray was needed. The radios looked very much like a dirty automobile engine. I decided that the radios should also be treated like a dirty engine and get a good hot suds spray wash. Drying was handled by leaving the radios open, stacking them in the back of the company pickup truck, and taking them for a drive on the freeway for a "blow dry". In those days it was actually possible to drive 65 (or later 55) mph during daylight hours. By the time I arrived back at the shop, the radios were cleaned and dry. We did have a roller coaster nearby, but they wouldn't let me take the radios on a ride without paying for the extra seats. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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