[GreenKeys] Ribbon Warning

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sun Sep 2 08:57:22 EDT 2018


On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Richard Knoppow wrote:

> Nylon lasts longer than cotton but cotton prints darker. There used to 
> be silk ribbons but I think nylon has pretty much replaced them.

I've had sort of the opposite experience with dot-matrix printers.  Nylon 
was more expensive, cannot be re-used, but gave a crisper print (important 
when you are submitting scripts for broadcast[*]) whereas cotton tended to 
smudge.

I think I ended up doing the draft on cotton, and the final on nylon.

Then we got cheap laser printers :-)

[*]
VK2WI, if anyone cares; I was Broadcast Officer for years.

-- Dave VK2KFU


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