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# Renewing Printer Ribbons

This article illustrates my trials and tribulations with some workable ideas pertaining to renewing printer ribbons, including some pitfalls. With the realization that the new breed of laser and ink jet printers are becoming more commonplace, I feel that there are a large majority of computer users who stil] use dot matrix printers. Perhaps, sometime in the future I will also go by the way of the newer breed of printers, and …. perhaps not!