Re: Imagewriter I ribbon

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>On Tue, 10 May 2005 08:35:58 -0400, "Bill Garber"
><willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>I just left www.123Inkjets.com and they have them for $3.95,
>>with better prices if you buy quantities of 2-9 at $3.45, and
>>for 10+ they are $2.95 each. Man, how can you beat that?
>
>Several years ago I picked up aproximately 360 black ImageWriter
>ribbons at a Radio Shack warehouse sale.  I only wanted to pick some
>up for myself but when the guy saw me looking at them and found out I
>had a use for them, he ended up pulling a bunch of boxes out and he
>made me a deal.

    What's the shelf life for unused printer ribbons? This thread reminded me
that I have about a half-dozen black ImageWriter ribbons from the early 90's 
and even a color ribbon from 1988. They're still new and wrapped in plastic,
but is it possible they could have dried out from age?

    Still have a pair of ImageWriter II's (which out lasted the StyleWriter 1
which mysteriously stopped working after a year) and a beige ImageWriter 1.

Mitchell Spector