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From: pmd@cbnews.ATT.COM (Paul Dubuc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How get a "good, dark ribbon"?
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Date: 23 Jun 89 18:02:41 GMT
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Reply-To: pmd@cbnews.ATT.COM (Paul Dubuc)
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I've thought of trying to re-ink the expensive ribbons for my Panasonic
1124 printer, but I'm wary of just buying any old ink and putting a few
drops on the reinking wheel.  I've heard that the ink serves to lubricate
the pins on dot matrix printers and using the wrong kind of ink could ruin
the print head (sort of like using straight gasoline in a 2 cycle engine).
Any truth to this?
-- 
Paul Dubuc   |   "How could God reveal himself in a way that would leave
att!asr1!pmd |   no room for doubt?  If there were no room for doubt, there
	     |   would be no room for me."
	     |   				Frederick Buechner