Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Greg,

I wasn't aware that it didn't have a usb port. That does sound old.
I'll take a look at it. I'm not really in the mood for a lot of
mechanical work and I do hate collecting junk. I belive I have the
manual for it already.

John





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg"
<dfaprinting@...> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 22, 2006, at 1:31 PM, john dean wrote:
> > 
> > > Greg,
> > >
> > > I have an option to buy a 9500 cheap here in town for about a 
> grand.
> > > It has a busted ink line or something
> > >
> > > John
> 
> 
> Find out what that something might be. A cracked flexible line would 
> be nothing to fix, even if you bought Epson parts this would be 
> cheap. If it is one of the steel lines, it might be more involved. If 
> you like the K6 in your 7000, this would give you a wider machine, 
> and you already have lots of parts from the donor machines. That is, 
> if you have room for this beast.
> 
> As hard as it may be to believe, I don't have the parts list printed. 
> I guess I better fix this soon.
> 
> You might try offering $500, but up to about $750 would be good (if 
> it's really just a broken line). I think the flexible lines are a 
> metric size, but there might be something close enough that you could 
> buy from US Plastic. Dampers are about $12 each, and heads are down 
> to about $90 each. Here is the BIG problem... It only has the 
> standard parallel port (unless they have a card installed), so that 
> might cause an issue. The Belkin par/USB adapter works OK, but the 
> Epson type B firewire card is not rated for the 9500 (or converted 
> 9000). I haven't found a fix for this yet, but I'm still looking 
> since I have the printer and the card.
>