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- From: judd@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Stephen Judd)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Extended MPS-801 ribbon
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 04:31:48 GMT
- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL
- Message-ID: <4gm4bk$8sf@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- References: <8279318204801@ccsnet.com>
- Reply-To: sjudd@nwu.edu (Stephen Judd)
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- In article <8279318204801@ccsnet.com>, <dbryant@ccsnet.com> wrote:
- >[Text by moi]
- >JU>Another "I kid you not it works" way to extend the life of printer
- >JU>ribbons: WD-40, lifeblood of the world. Spray a little WD-40 in the
- >JU>cartridge and the thing magically rejuvanates. Of course, spray too
- >JU>much in and you get a bunch of muck in your printer, on the printer
- >JU>head, etc.
- >
- >Muck up the printer or printhead?? You should know what you're talking
- >about before you post. I've been doing this for years -- suit yourself.
-
- Hmmmm, I'm never quite sure what it is that motivates some people to
- respond to messages in playground fashion, e.g. making statements whose
- sole purpose is to attempt to elevate one's status by denigrating another,
- e.g. counting one's self superior by pointing out percieved flaws in others.
-
- Nevertheless, if you doubt my claim, then I have a simple experiment which
- you may perform: take your ribbon cartridge, spray an overly-generous
- amount of WD-40 into it -- say a whole can -- and re-install the
- cartridge into your printer. Then wait and see what happens.
-
- evetS-
-
- >dbryant@ccsnet.com
-