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#1 2008-01-31 11:23 pm
- dvpierce
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Today...
I set up an Imagewriter II.
What a head trip.
"Now commences the process of cutting off the head, which generally takes from an hour to an hour and a half by an expert workman with a sharp blade." -Reuben Delano, Wanderings and Adventures
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#2 2008-02-01 7:03 am
- Orion
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Re: Today...
I love those things. I have 4 of them currently. They just keep bangin' away don't they? 
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. -John F. Kennedy
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#3 2008-02-01 11:01 am
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#4 2008-02-01 1:16 pm
- dvpierce
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Re: Today...
And yeah, it's the Energizer Bunny of impact printing.
"Now commences the process of cutting off the head, which generally takes from an hour to an hour and a half by an expert workman with a sharp blade." -Reuben Delano, Wanderings and Adventures
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#5 2008-02-01 3:37 pm
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I was serious. The earliest ones were called Imagewriter, later ones ImageWriter.
Anyway, they're not all that when it comes to impact printers: Oki Microlines rule.
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#6 2008-02-01 6:43 pm
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Re: Today...
ImageWriter II, I guess.
I'm kinda thinking of buying a dot matrix printer. Officemax still sells them new. Epsons any good?
"Now commences the process of cutting off the head, which generally takes from an hour to an hour and a half by an expert workman with a sharp blade." -Reuben Delano, Wanderings and Adventures
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#7 2008-02-01 7:00 pm
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We have an Oki Microline 320 Turbo for our invoice printer at work and it just keeps hammering along. It has probably printed in the neighborhood of 100,000 pages already and it still works fine. The Epson we had before that worked great too, but it died after about 6-7 years of printing (again more than 100,000 pages).
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. -John F. Kennedy
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#8 2008-02-02 6:42 pm
- loafer
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Re: Today...
Did you get the ThunderScan to work this time?
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#9 2008-02-03 9:42 am
- dvpierce
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Re: Today...
loafer wrote:
Did you get the ThunderScan to work this time?
We don't have one of those. The color ribbon works alright, though.
"Now commences the process of cutting off the head, which generally takes from an hour to an hour and a half by an expert workman with a sharp blade." -Reuben Delano, Wanderings and Adventures
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#10 2008-02-03 9:41 pm
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I think Apple was ahead of its time on the current "lets get a lot of money for a little bit of ink" trend with inkjets. At least 3rd party ribbons were available - I think my last color ribbon dried up in 1991 - I still have some paper with those perforations that are so tiny that when you rip the holes off it seems like ream paper. OH and I just remembered - those things could suck in the output paper and create quite a jam.
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#11 2008-02-15 3:51 am
- Rockin' Kat
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Re: Today...
I have an ImageWriter II and an ImageWriter. The IW II is on a switch shared between my Apple IIgs and my Mac ColorClassic. The IW is on my Mac 512ke.
I sometimes make greeting cards using Print Shop IIgs on my Apple IIgs and printed it out in color on my ImageWriter II. I also make signs in it too. I made a little drawing of a mini and made a "Mini Parking Only" for my girlfriend a week ago actually.
I like to hit the thrift stores a lot looking for video games... I also look out for high-end 70's and 80's boomboxes, records, LaserDisk videos, odd computer stuff, and ribbons for my ImageWriter printers.. so I have almost a drawer full of unused old stock color and black ribbons, as well as some single-color non-black ribbons.
I'd really like to find the sheet feeder add on for using ream paper.
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#12 2008-02-15 9:01 pm
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I should dig my ImageWriter out of the closet, I love the sounds they make.
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#13 2008-02-16 11:47 am
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When I had mine (before I gave it away with the beige g3), I could not get it to print in color.
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#14 2008-02-17 1:28 am
- Rockin' Kat
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On the macintosh only certain early applications actually supported color the way the original driver handled it.
There is a shareware driver(called MacPalette) for printing in color from all applications in Mac OS 9 and earlier..... It also even permits background printing. It however is not possible to purchase a registration code for it anymore.... I have a full-copy of it. It's pretty cool. I used it to print that picture of my 512ke Mac.
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#15 2008-02-17 11:35 am
- dvpierce
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Re: Today...
Clarisworks supports color printing, apparently.
"Now commences the process of cutting off the head, which generally takes from an hour to an hour and a half by an expert workman with a sharp blade." -Reuben Delano, Wanderings and Adventures
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#16 2008-05-13 7:09 am
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I have both an ImageWriter I and II. I love the melodic sounds they make when printing. Unfortunately I lost the cable for them, so I am stuck with crappy silent color laser. 
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