It works. For the ribbon type printers, it gets the ink moving enough to
get a second or third use from the cart. Print quality was dicey, but for
listings to do debugging on a dot matrix printer, quality wasn't the name
of the game. Just don't use too much...
Warner
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 11:56 PM Jim Geist <velocityboy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You can supposedly revive dried out ribbons by soaking
them in WD40. I’ve
heard of it but never tried it.
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:14 PM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Which was ...?
Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
Especially if you use the WD40 trick for the ink
ribbon. :)
Warner
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 1:14 PM Jim Geist <velocityboy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a functional LA120 in my house and can attest to the machine
smell
> whenever I run it.