Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!dalcsug!dalegass
From: dalegass@dalcsug.UUCP (Dale Gass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Epson MX-80 print head madness
Message-ID: <351@dalcsug.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 23:41:41 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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For a printer which is supposed to have a 'disposable' print head, I find it
hard to believe that the replacement print head for my MX-80 costs well over
half of the purchase price of a brand-new printer!

I suppose I can't complain, having gotten 8 years of use out of a disposable
print-head, but still... I find it pretty hard to shell out $158 for a new
print head, when I can buy a new and faster printer with more features for
$300.

Would anybody out there have a dead MX-80 on their junk-pile with a live
print-head?  I'd be very grateful of finding some way of getting my printer
working on a students budget.  Anybody know of a cheap mail-order house that
would have these at a reasonable price???

Any help would be sincerely appreciated...

-dalegass@dalcsug.uucp