[GreenKeys] It's Alive....I hope

[Raymond Cote]

Larry,
    Long time ago when I had a couple 28's,  I re-inked some epson 
 rolls by laying a strip of  ribbon on a table, rolling the ink from 
those rollers one uses to re-ink a stam pad then rolling up bout 3 feet 
and laying out 3 feet more, and rolling, etc. etc.  Worked fine business 
but getting fingers clean took longer.  
My experience with the cassettes is that it takes bout 2 weeks for the 
ink to  capillary (can that be a verb?)  itself to all the ribbon.  Once 
you try it out, some of the text is ok and some is unreadable.  It "do"  
take patience.

Ray

Larry Tighe wrote:

> Got my bottle (i.e. 1 pint) of "Black Ink for Dot Matrix Ribbons" from 
> Computerfriends today.  Can't wait to judiciously pour some into my 
> AN/UGC-74B ribbon cassette.
>
> I've already popped the top off and found a tightly compacted ribbon 
> in there.  Surely some capillary action from the ink puddle will 
> restore the entire ribbon.  I'll report back.
>
> Larry
> K2JIA