[GreenKeys] source for new 1" paper tape?

Chris Elmquist chrise at pobox.com
Sun Jan 11 22:59:57 EST 2009


On Sunday (01/11/2009 at 04:44PM -0600), Don Robert House wrote:
> Interesting that you mention making your own tape.  If you are patient, you 
> can do just that.
>
> Given a roll of paper one can design and built a slitter.  One of my 
> friends did this for slitting paper tape into 3/8 inch for strip printers.
> He started with a 8 mm home movie editor and modified it to do the 
> slitting.  One company that used to manufacture paper rolls and tape
> was Maxwell Paper Co. in Texas.

They still exist:

http://www.maxwellpaper.com

and I've sent them an email asking if they still do teletype paper tape.
I'll let everyone know if and when they respond.

Thanks for the tip!

Chris

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