Image writer ii ribbon nos

[tf 85e3]

Is buying NOS B/W ribbon fine ive seen people talk about color ones being bad NOS and to buy them new but are B/W ones different?

 

[sstaylor]

This came up about a month ago:

ImageWriter Ribbon Cartridge Problems

I have a few ImageWriter II's and I finally decided to get around to getting one of them up and running for a project I'm working on. The ImageWriter itself is in good shape, but of course, the cartridge that was in it didn't seem to be working. So I decided to swap it out for a new old stock...

68kmla.org

TLDR: NOS is a crapshoot; you may get one that's just fine but there are others that are disintegrating. Links were provided for some New New Stock which work just fine.