Re: Imagewriter I ribbon

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

 email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com (Simon Williams) wrote:

>Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "news.libero.it" <mirko@yack.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >I have an imagewriter I and I'm looking for ribbon cartridges, I've seen
>> >some black ribbons for the ImageWriter II on ebay, does anyone know if they
>> >are compatible with I ?
>> 
>>     Yes, they're interchangeable. I think any C.Itoh 85x0 series ribbon
>> cartridges are compatible. Not sure if they're still sold today, I bought
>> a package of Pelikan-brand ribbons about a little over a decade ago
>> (the company is still around at least).
>
>Staples still sells the IW ribbons (both black and colour), at least in
>Canada... they're listed on the website, but not stocked in the stores,
>so you have to special order... I think they were about $7 each.

    They're available from US Staples stores as well, just type "ImageWriter"
as the keyword when doing a search on their website. 

Here's the black ribbon (US$4.50)
http://www.staples.com/Catalog/Browse/Sku.asp?PageType=1&Sku=NUKBM160

Here's the 4-color ribbon, for the ImageWriter II-only ( US$14.27)
http://www.staples.com/Catalog/Browse/Sku.asp?PageType=1&Sku=NUKBM160C

    Unfortunately they don't seem to sell ribbons for the ImageWriter LQ,
though it was short lived and not nearly as popular. I'm a bit surprised
they're still manufacturing new ribbons for dot-matrix printers in 2005, 
but then they still make typewriter ribbons, so.... :)

Mitchell Spector