Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!feg
From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Epson MX-80 print head madness
Summary: Don't print with faint ribbons!
Message-ID: <22216@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 88 18:46:52 GMT
References: <351@dalcsug.UUCP> <1139@houxu.UUCP> <4641@ecsvax.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany NJ
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In article <4641@ecsvax.UUCP>, mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow) writes:
> 
> 
> I would be interested in the experience of others as to what print
> heads cost in general.  The print head for my Okidata 92 cost $115
> from Okidata (unavailable anywhere else) and I convinced myself to
> replace it once.
 
The head for my Okidata 192 cost $93.50.

When ordering it, the fellow said "Ah hah!  Ran it with a light
ribbon, hey?"

And, yes, that's what I had done.  Printed an 80-odd page document with
a ribbon that was light to begin with.  The print head went sour in
just minutes.  Turns out that print head wires get their lubrication
from oil in the ink of the ribbon.  What burns me is that there  is 
not a peep about this in the printer manual.

Forrest Gehrke