Re: Imagewriter I ribbon

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Mitchell Spector" <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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: 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

The sources I've found so far say 5 years shelf life,
which means still wrapped with no holes or air leakage
of any kind in the package. I'd expect them to last
even longer than that. Most things last longer than
they are rated for. However, the longer they are shelved,
the greater the chance that they won't last very long
once opened.

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