Unboxing brand new ImageWriter II

[Scott Baret]

Given the serial number, your ImageWriter II was made in the first week of 1993.

 

[maceffects]

Cool! Thanks for the info, how did you figure that out anyway? I know there is a decoder for the Mac but never heard of one for an ImageWriter. Pretty cool!!

 

[uniserver]

Here is the inside of the broken Ribbon

so basically the rubber wheel degraded?

 

[CC_333]

I think it's some sort of foam rubber which is saturated with ink.

I'm not absolutely certain though. Maybe someone can confirm?

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[maceffects]

I'm not 100% sure what it is or was but its suppose to advance the ribbon and twisting the knob did nothing. Maybe genuine Apple ones were prone to this at this age?

 

[trag]

@ Trag where do you suppose I could get "MacPalette II"?

The last time I checked MicroSpot was still selling legitimate copies, but you had to call them and ask.

http://www.microspot.com/index.htm

There was a serial version and an appletalk version, so you may want to wait and see how you're going to use the printer. I don't know if Microspot still has both versions.