Okimate 10 Printer Interface questions

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Greets! Just received one of these printers in excellent shape, but haven't tested it out yet. It came with a few new printing cassettes though, so am thinking this puppy should work. Only came with a C64 serial port adapter... so I'd be looking for a parallel port interface if anyone happens to have one. I'd specifically like to use this with an Amiga 1000 or my A2500.

Also, is there anything else that requires maintenance or other issues I should be worried about?  Ie: print heads, etc.

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Yeah, I always wanted one of these for my A1000. Seems it came highly recommended for the machine with the colors and graphics of the A1000. Good inexpensive companion anyway.

So, I e-mailed the big Okidata Pro's people on ePay asking them questions. Shouldn't be surprised, but here's what the gal that wrote had to say:

"I'm not familia with an "Okimate 10" printer.  Is that the correct model?"...   :lol:

So, being the nice guy that I am (cough), gave her a nice and short history of their printers, along with a pic of the machine. lol  Jeez... so much for the Pro aspect.  lol  Can't wait to receive their second response. Anyone wanna bet they either don't respond or come back with a generic response along the lines of: "that model is long discontinued and therefore would not carry parts for it".   lol

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I have some new ribbons here too, but they are dried out from age.

Really, they're dried out? I had to open one up to re-spool her and noticed these are not regular dot-matrix type ribbons that are wet or moist. They look more like an audio cassette tape to be honest, that's why I was thinking they'd still be good. Well, the color one anyway.

2 hours for warranty service huh? Sounds like today's customer service standards. lol  Only printer I ever owned back in the 80's was a Gorilla-Banana. Damn thing was "cheap" as far as printers went back then, but never ever had a problem with it.