[78-L] ^typewriter factory closes - URGENT PLEA

[David Lennick]

On 4/28/2011 10:10 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> And has anyone ever really managed to print out an author's last magnum opus by
> stretching out the ribbon? This was a plot device in a Columbo episode in the
> 70s and more recently in House. Not possible, I say.

Okay, it might be possible with more recent narrow ribbons, but the Selectric 
uses a half-inch high ribbon and the keys strike every available bit of area, 
not in a straight line. Just clarifying that. Or something.

> dl
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> On 4/28/2011 9:51 AM, David Breneman wrote:
>> --- On Thu, 4/28/11, Ron L'Herault<lherault at bu.edu>   wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder if stamp-pad ink will work
>>> to re-ink a cotton type ribbon?
>>
>> I was about the suggest the same thing.  I've heard of
>> people unrolling the ribbon and running the stamp pad
>> re-inker along it's length.  Messy, but supposedly it
>> can be done.
>>
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