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Re: Apple Scribe ribbons available again...
Responding to Mr. Althoff: Well, not me. The Scribe was the first Apple
printer I ever owned and I was not impressed by its print quality, either
with the black or color ribbons. And the ribbons cost a fortune, then and
now--for the life expectancy you got out of them. I got myself an
Imagewriter I two months later and have had it ever since--still working
with the original print head.
--bj
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In article <54s5iu$jt5@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) wrote:
> Edhel Iaur (drsmooth@relex.com) wrote:
> : hochstrasse@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Urs Hochstrasser) wrote:
>
> : >In article <54mfeh$edl@news.emi.com>, drsmooth@relex.com wrote:
>
> : >> I thought the Scribe was a thermal printer, and didn't NEED ribbons?
> : >> What's the deal?
> : >It's a thermo _transfer_ printer. Any more questions? :-)
>
> : So, it makes ink fly off the ribbon and onto the paper via heat,
> : instead of slamming a pin against the ribbon?
>
> Precisely. My understanding is that it is a wax-based ribbon or something
> like that. And in the absence of a proper ribbon, you *could* use thermal
> (i.e. FAX) paper in the Scribe. Using the thermal transfer ribbon gives
> you good-looking images on plain paper. I distinctly remember being
> really impressed with the Scribe output...and very disappointed at the
> ribbon life.
>
> Incidentally, my parents have a Brother FAX machine which uses exactly the
> same thermal transfer concept for printing on plain paper.
>
> --Dave Althoff, Jr.
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