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

[Ron L'Herault]

With a plastic film ribbon where characters are struck only once in one
space it may be possible to recover a long string of words, I would think.

Ron L

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[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
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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.

dl

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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