Star LC200 ribbon compatibility (and the money people spend just to print some text

[Jose]

I have this dot Matrix printer, the StarLC200 that some of you might know.  The reason I continue to use it is cause it's cheaper to maintain, and  the letter quality is enouph if you use the right settings.  The amount of money some people spend to just print some text is amazing.
Anyway, I have the possibility of buying cheap ribbons for the StarLC10 but don't know if they're compatible with the LC200, doesn anyone know?

[Jose]

Thanks all for the replies. Guess it's not compatible.
@ _LinchpiN_:
Nice idea. But I don't how much of a hassle it is to do thiat with these ribbons so I better not risk.

@Clooned:
 "...Is very cheap compared to ink cartridges printers but is very slow."
That's the whole point. And I found a driver specifically wriitten for it in Aminet that allows you to writte 256 shades of grey :-D Never seen such an amount of work dedicated to a printer driver, the thing even has ink colour contamination compensation :-o . Dunno how good the output is though, but with the right settings it's possible ot have decent text quality at a very low price.

[Jose]

@Joanna:
Sure, but thanks for the tip :-D . The reason was asking this is that I saw a bargain...      1£/ ribbon is not bad is   it? :-o

[Jose]

Ok, Ok, maybe I need to upgrade. But the amount of money I'd spend on a new printer I could but lots of ribbons for my printer. I don't need photo quatily printings, for that I can use my works printer when sporadically needed. It's just cheaper to pay for the prints given the number of times I need to print, and I think that applies to most people. And there are places where you can get photoquality prints relatively cheap. So at least for now I 'll die a bit more (@bloodline). 8-)