From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!CSTROM@mit-mc.arpa Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Printers and Their Repair Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.372 Posted: Sat Feb 5 05:37:00 1983 Received: Mon Feb 7 01:49:25 1983 From: Charlie StromIf it makes you feel any better, you are not alone! I had an Okidata 82A die on me - it ended up to be akin to a lightening strike (though the sun was shining) and required change of the microprocessor, a driver and the buffer in-between the two as well as the printhead. All but the latter were available locally (though at ridiculous prices - the Big Apple is small potatoes when it comes to electronic parts.) The printhead (as well as an excellent technical manual) had to come from Okidata in N.J. The hitch was that they will not accept purchase orders unless a check accompanies it; also nixx on C.O.D.'s. In a similar vein, we had a Televideo 912 (ughh) dies and traced it to the microprocessor. Televideo has a $50 min., and will not accept C.O.D.'s or P.O.'s either. So, we tried to get the chip through a TI distributor. To make an aggravating story short, we are still waiting for the chip after about a month and expect another month of thumb-twiddling. Info like this is most valuable BEFORE one makes the next purchase, isn't it?!