Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!david
From: david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Epson MX-80 print head madness
Message-ID: <2324@geac.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 15:01:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2324
Posted: Wed Feb 24 10:01:51 1988
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In article <22216@clyde.ATT.COM: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) writes:
: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

A word from the trenches:

	Before replacing the head, try cleaning it with a squirt of
Television Tuner Cleaner --- cleans the black gunk off the pins and
lubricates the whole assembly. Saved my *ss a number of times!

-david-
-- 
David Haynes
Geac Computers International Inc. 
UUCP:	{uunet!mnetor | yunexus | utgpu}!geac!david