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Who the hell can afford a printer (lemmynsfw.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The best investment of my life was buying an Epson LQ500 back in... I don't know... '95 perhaps? All this years, and even after months or even years without use it will happily awake from its slumber to once again scream and punch dots on to its never ending but ancient supply of fanfold paper

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

But where do you get new ribbons? Or can you re-ink them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

For one, they are still sold new for a surprising low amount of money (e.g.: https://www.bueromarkt-ag.de/farbband_kmp_0633_0501_fuer_epson,vt-farbbaender_und_-rollen,vh-epson,vg-lq_500,p-06330501.html) but re-inking them using just rubber stamp ink is also a possibility.