Did you try spraying WD40 into the ribbon cartridge? Always worked for me
... dissolves the dried ink and makes it useable again. Else, dob the
ribbon with inkpad refill ink.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Alexander" <james.m.alexander@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:17 PM
Subject: [torontocbm] Re: Ko Wrecked type warning
Brian,
Thats what I'd thought and what others told me. But its very far from
the truth these days. Case in point try getting an MPS801 ribbon,
you'll end up with one of the ribbons I'd got stuck with and it won't
work. They aren't producing any more of these either as I've been the
only person to buy one in over a year!
Brian Lyons wrote:
I have never had any problems with Ko Rec Type ribbons.
They have a good diversity of product for older printers.
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Alexander"
<james.m.alexander@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:09 PM
Subject: [torontocbm] Ko Wrecked type warning
Greetings.
Many of you will remember me asking about printer ribbons being
available quite a few months ago. I got the suggestion to try Ko Rec
Type which I did. Lately I've had an outrageous amount of trouble
with them. I'd ordered a pair of MPS-801 ribbons from them through a
local retailer in Port Hope called Randalls stationary (also in
cobourg and trenton). Well the ribbons they sent weren't new, they
were old used dried out ribbons dating back to 1999. I took them
back to Randalls to exchange them which Randalls at first did but the
ribbons were simply resealed in the packaging and sent back to me
again with the old dry ribbons. After much going back and forth
including my last trip to Randalls less than an hour ago, I was lied
to repeatedly then the store clerk said he'd give me a refund. But
having made the mistake of not bringing my receipt back with me this
time he again lied and tried to refund me less than $5 each for the
ribbons ($10 for both) when they'd charged me $27 for them in the
first place. Being as this clerk, who I now refer to as a cluck was
the same person who put the sale through in the first place.
I'm not sure how many here would ever use their older printers much
but if anyone does don't waste your time & money on Ko Rec Type. No
point them ripping anyone else off. I'm looking for alternative
sources if there is any. If so I'll post the results here.
