Re: Carbon Ribbons for the Imagewriter?

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From: Jim Budler
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 1985 21:29

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In article <345@vax2.fluke.UUCP> moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>I was looking through the latest issue of MacWorld when I noticed one of the
>mail-order retail stores selling "carbon" ribbons for the Imagewriter (I
>belive these were advertised as being made by Elephant).  Anyone have any
>experience with these?  Also, any speculations on how this would effect
>quality with the Imagewriter, and whether it would be safe to use with the
>Imagewriter print head?
>
>I suspect that there would be no problem using it (in fact, I'm curious why
>no one has come out with this before), but I thought I'd better throw this
>into the Bullpen...
>
I suspect that there WOULD be a problem if ALL printing was done with the
carbon ribbon.  Cloth ribbons for dot matrix printers contain silicon
lubricants for the print head.

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