I'm curious if anyone still manufactures a simple, easy-to-repair, rugged
dot-matrix serial-interface (only pins 2,3,8,20 on DB25) printer which
uses
ordinary spool typewriter ribbon. Plain ASCII, no graphics, no fonts, no
PDF.
I used to have an Oki m82a for twelve years and I kick myself I ever
threw
it away. I even used "film" ribbons on it, which were actually not
recommended.
I got my inkjet down to injecting one dollar's worth of ink into a
twenty
five dollar cartridge, but when I hear the manufacturer suing ink
manufacturers for infringement, I want to get away from them altogether.
I
can't honestly believe people aren't upset being ripped off for ink on a
printer they paid next to nothing for. I mean, if I want fancy printing, I
go
to Kinko or something. I'm even looking for a service (Kinko comes close)
I
can send large print jobs to by net. It was cool when I could do this on
CompuServe before Anerdica OffLine ruined them.
If Negroponte got to manufacturing a windup laptop for third world
students, I can't imagine there isn't also a need for "appropriate
technology" in printers.
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Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Reagan Mozart Pindus BioStrategist
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm
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