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?

[Clooned]

I don't know.
I have a  LC20 printer and i don't see nothing about LC10/20/200 ribbon compatibility  
in the manual.
I used it for my school work but now is useless. Is very cheap compared to ink cartridges printers but is very slow.
I not tried it yet in my AmigaOne G4.

Hala Madrid !!!

[Ilwrath]

Yikes... This is going back quite a ways....

Is the Star LC10 the color version of the NX10?  I remember the NX10 series was NX10/20/40(?) as the same ribbon.

I think the 200 series was a different ribbon, though.  

It looks like it from some of the pricing information I've found, as well.

[Lando]

I had a Star LC-200 also (the first printer I had with my A600 - I used it for printing out pictures from the Maria Whittaker slideshow PD disk) and it definitely uses different ribbons from the LC-10.

[Linchpin]

Cant ya open up the ribbon cartridge and stick another ribbon in therE? I used to do it with my Citizen 120D+ D/M Printer, Also with my Panasonic DM Printer.... :-D

[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.

[JoannaK]

Well.. If I had that i'd just get that used ribbon with me to closest Computer or Office equip.  store and asked them to find me replacement.. (also some info of printer itself like manufacturer/model number .. or perhaps Manual if I had one).

[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

[chris]

I bought a load of LC-10 black ribbons for - IIRC - 50p each.  The back of one of the packets (I didn't get through many before my LC-10 went out of service, although I have kept it as a back-up, especially as dot matrix printers are useful for printing reams of text, and damn expensive these days), erm where was I?, ah yes, the back of one of the packets states compatibility with Star LC-10 II/LC-20/NX-20.

So I doubt they will work on your LC-200.  On the plus side, in my experience the cartridges unclip with relative ease, so you might be able to switch the ribbon within the cartridge if they are the same size.

Chris

[Floid]

Jose wrote:
The amount of money some people spend to just print some text is amazing.

Not much of a help, but the sweet spot right now seems to be the old Oki LED printers.  Rugged, "standard" (supporting an early revision of PCL, and maybe Epson/Proprinter emulations), toner's still available cheaply, and decent enough for 300?DPI text.  The Linux crowd seem to like Samsung for cheap high-res Postscript lasers, but the build quality of any current-era stuff seems iffy until you get up to the $1,000 'workgroup' range.

Inkjets, of course, all suck relatively equally, though each make in different ways.  I've currently landed an old Deskjet 560C, reasonable in the sense that the off-brand  cartridges at least come with a full load of ink for your $30.

[bloodline]

A "Photo Quality" printer like the Lexmark Z55 is only £40 new... and that come with colour and B/W cartridges.... upgrade (or die?)  :-D

[Paul_Gadd]

and the money people spend just to print some text

Yes "people" pay stupid amounts for ink ribbons,carts etc because they dont know any better and believe any old sh!t they read on the box, Ink is mega cheap if you go to the right place.

[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-)

[bloodline]

Jose wrote:
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-)

That's cool, I like your reasoning!!!!  :-)

Most people just don't think things through.