[GreenKeys] INKTRONIC on EBay

[Andy Williams]

Does the Inktronic printer use purple ink? In the mid 80s the company I worked for pulled an old test set out of storage and I believe that it used an Inktronic printer. I recall that the printer was big, messy and left a permanent purple stain on the floor tile. It was connected to a Varian 620 computer.


> On Jun 26, 2016, at 10:29 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Another reason restoration of the device would be difficult is that when
> newly manufactured the print was pretty readable, but as time went on it
> got worse and worse.  This was partly caused by paper dust collecting
> on the electrodes, and then by attempts to remove the paper dust and
> unclog the nozzles.
> 
> If there had been a market for a high-speed tape printer, meaning one
> nozzle and set of deflecting plates, the product might have been a
> winner.  As a page printer trying to keep 40 sets of nozzles and
> deflection plates working alike was just more than could be achieved.
> 
> Right across the street from Teletype in Skokie was the A B Dick Co.
> You might want to look up Videojet, which was their take on the same
> kind of product.  I don't know if there was any swapping of ideas between
> the two companies.  The initial work on Inktronic was done at Wrightwood
> so no A B Dick engineers nearby at the time.
> 
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