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Typewriter Ribbon Stainer



There are people who simply collect and store various vintage items, and there are those who use them periodically. So, for example, the author of Instructables under the nickname DLHopwood sometimes launches a typewriter. So that her tape could be stained, he made an interesting do it yourself interesting and original device.

The master finds in his stocks woodworking waste, an ink pad, a handle from the desk drawer (then he will find another one of the same), various fasteners:

Typewriter Ribbon Stainer


He takes a saw, a clerical knife, a screwdriver with drills, a glue gun, gloves, and also not shown in the following photo pliers:



Plastic nuts add to the bolts of the handle for the drawers:



Collects base from waste wood homemade, drills holes in it, fastens the bolts of the handle for the boxes with plastic nuts, installs the stamp pad, and next to it are two wooden dowels, on each of which several more such nuts are freely rotated - they will be rollers. So that they do not fly off the dowels, fixes the washers with drops of hot glue.



He refills the stamp pad with the paint intended for it, removes the handles for table drawers from the bolts, puts on the bobbins, returns the handles to their places, stretches the tape as shown below, and proceeds to stain the tape:



And finally, shoots a video about his homemade product:



The tape intended for typewriters was used not only in them, but also in some very old matrix printers made in the USSR, Poland, etc. Cartridges with an endless ribbon, ratchet and integrated pillow came to this technique later in the early nineties.

And when you watched this video, did you remember the smell of tape and the roar of levers with letters?
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11 comments
victtol1
In bank cash desks, railway cash desks, and many more where dot matrix printers are used, linear matrix printers are sometimes used for printing reports, and all this works on nylon tapes impregnated with mastic, these devices are used now. Epson FX890 dot matrix printers are now very common in banks. Although most cash desks operate on thermal printers using thermal paper.
Revered almost everything except Head. chair. We did not allow him to read xaxa

They were afraid that after reading it they would gain experience and would have you “more” more sophisticated ...
And I’ve been racking my brains for about 5 years xaxa why banks are still using dot matrix printers ... Finally Korolev enlightened. It turns out to create a lasting image! To make it difficult to change, fake. That's right, but in other offices lasers and inkjets.

By the way, I remembered. The very first printer I saw and worked with was a matrix printer. I then worked at one institute and we were given days to buy this printer. And you know what we printed first? An engineer from a nearby department brought a bobbin with a bunch of different things. Well, if anyone remembers, then there were such drives. Well, we twisted it, found KAMASUTRA there !. Here we first printed it. xaxa Then this printout went around, almost everything was read except Zav. chair. We did not let him read xaxa
Valery
Well, in the banks?
The main advantage of these devices is the formation of a stable image, which can neither be washed off, nor erased, nor etched, because the needle mark will still remain
yes
And that too ... But what about the banks? Receipts are also printed on sophisticated matrioshki. And in a day - a huge roll of paper is transferred ... Cheap thin paper! And do not gobble up all the expensive toner in the cartridge.
Valery
And for a long time will be, given the reliability, and (most important) the cost of consumables
I think the point here is that forms (for example tickets) do not undergo heat treatment, unlike laser ones.
And for a long time there will be, given the reliability, and (most important) the cost of consumables. Moreover, the print quality there is completely satisfactory.
Filin80
Already there are no matrix printers ... = nonsense and nonsense
Look carefully at the printer in banks and ticket offices, they are still matrix! yes
victtol1
Mastic for tapes is now sold without problems, google. But usually now they buy cartridges for dot-matrix printers, and the same ribbons are used in a typewriter.
Guest knnk007
Interestingly, not even a fit from the 70s, but where to get the paint for the ribbon of a typewriter ??? Her life did not exist. Bought a new one.
Already there are no matrix printers, but a laser can draw letters from a typewriter.

In short = nonsense and nonsense from foreign garbage dumps of the 20th century .....
victtol1
And it’s not easier with a mastic solution on gasoline for lighters, just moisten the tape without any mastic devices, then it will lie evenly. If lubricated with undiluted mastic, it will not evenly lie on any, will clog needles or stain chamomile letters, somewhere it will be bold and somewhere dry. Previously, these tapes were soaked only with a solution of mastic in the bag.
Why is this device? Wet the tape, let it dry, wound it on a spool and everything.

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