[Coco] CGP-220 Repair?

[Ray Watts]

  The resident expert on the CGP-220 for the CoCo used to be Terry 
Laraway out in Bremerton, WA.  At one time he sold refill kits for the 
cartridges and a gfx manipulation & dump program to fully utilize it. 
 He also had a number old 220's and their Canon equivalents in vatious 
stages of repair and disrepair.  Unforch, he is no longer active with 
the CoCo, but the last time we communicated, he still had most of his 
stuff in storage as I mentioned several weeks ago.  The only address for 
Terry I have saved is:

tkcoco at silverlink.net

but I doubt if it is any good now.   Good luck

Cheers,  Griz


Andrew wrote:

> All,
>
> I have an old CGP-220 printer, with both a black and a color ink 
> cartridge. Now, this printer hasn't been used in years. The ink has to 
> be completely dried out, and who knows about the rest of the system. I 
> have yet to run any real tests with it.
>
> Can anybody tell me if such a thing can be repaired to get it to work 
> again. I am pretty sure it will work (though I might need to do some 
> roller softening or something) - but, what about the dried ink? How do 
> I clean this (and the print head)?
>
> Then - how can I refill the cartridges? Something tells me this might 
> be possible, with a lot of effort and cussing, likely. I fully expect 
> to have to take the unit apart (as well as the cartridges).
>
> Is this a pipe dream? Am I crazy for thinking such a thing? Should I 
> just retire it (well, it is already technically "retired"), or should 
> I try to restore it?
>
> Comments, ideas, suggestions?
>
> Andrew Ayers
>