September 6, 2009

5 comments:

  1. Mike SpeegleSeptember 6, 2009 at 11:17 PM

    Good lookin' out.

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  2. Elizabeth H.September 8, 2009 at 11:30 PM

    I envy you people who can still just mosey on down to the local office supplies store for ribbons. :-\ They don't carry 'em at the big box stores here. At one point I special ordered some through Office Depot, but last time I tried, they said they wouldn't deliver to this area. Luckily there are still some (more obscure) places to mail-order.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 9, 2009 at 1:47 PM

    I just picked one of those up today at my local Staples for $4.79. Curious to see if it works on my Olivetti.

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  4. deekSeptember 9, 2009 at 1:59 PM

    Yeah, let me know how you fare.

    At my local Staples, there were a few options, so I picked them all up to try. I stayed away from the black/white correction ribbon (even though it was the only listed as a typewriter ribbon) due to all the bad things I've heard about the white flaking off and making a mess.

    One of them was a black/red, but it was on a much smaller spool, for a calculator. I had to cut some plastic pegs off the base and drill a hole in the plastic to fit. It didn't feed correctly (due to the smaller spool diameter), but I figure I could always reuse the ribbon on my existing spools, if need be.

    But this one worked great. It had some "spokes" where my ribbon feed peg (for lack of a better term) fit and would spin it around. Its a good length, too (the calculator ribbon was more expensive and was shorter).

    And for $4.79 with no shipping...very hard to beat! I hope it works for ya.

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  5. D. LoonSeptember 10, 2009 at 5:22 PM

    Ah-HA!

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