[GreenKeys] Ribbons for older TTY's

[Doug Alderdice]

At 04:26 PM 2/21/2003, david freeman wrote:
>Does anyone have information where colored ribbons (red, blue, purple, 
>brown, etc...) can be found. Even if it's on the wrong spool as long as 
>it's 1/2" wide, (I have lots of empties). I have some RTTY pix that are 
>designed for multi-colors
>
>Dave, WW8S

I just bought a purple point-of-sale machine ribbon at my local Office 
Max.  It comes on really tiny spools (maybe an inch in dia.) but the ribbon 
is 1/2" wide and 19.5" ft long; no problem to spool off onto a full-size 
teletype spool.  Only thing is there are no rivets on the ribbon ends to 
trip the ribbon reversing mechanism.  If you have a small pop rivet tool 
you can probably add that yourself.  I don't.  I bought it because I needed 
a ribbon for the typing reperf in my 28ASR and it was the only thing that 
Office Max had in a 1/2" ribbon and I had a big paper tape punch project to 
do, so I just watch the spools when I am punching tape and hit the 
reversing lever myself at the right time.

The ribbon is a Royal #013090 Cash Register Ribbon.

Have fun.

73,

Doug, KA2WFT

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