[Coco] TRP-100 Thermal Printer

[Andrew]

I picked up one of these a long while back at a local Goodwill. It came 
with a ribbon. I popped in some batteries, hooked it up to my CoCo 3 and 
it worked perfectly. I never found a source for ribbons - it is unlikely 
that you can find them anywhere today.

I did find some other thermal ribbons (at Goodwill as well) that seemed 
the right width - I figured I might try to wind them on the original 
cartridge if/when it stops working. I doubt that will be anytime soon, 
as I only got the printer because it "looked lonely" and needed a home. :)

Thank you for posting the site for the manual, Rogelio - I wasn't able 
to find a manual, and I wanted to try my hand at using it for graphics 
or something retro in that vein. This will help greatly, if I ever get 
around to it.

Also - that site pointed to another site the same guy runs, for the 
Altair32 emulator! I own an Altair 8800 that at some point I need to do 
a complete restoration on (it has about a 1/2 inch of dirt collected in 
it, but I managed to get a ton of peripheral cards - unfortunately, it 
is missing its top cover, and the original company doesn't make that 
case anymore - so I plan on having a custom cover made when the time 
comes) - and that site had all the manuals and tons of other info that 
will make my job much easier (not that it is going to be easy by far).

To many to-do's on my list...

-- Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona

> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 06:33:43 -0500
> From: "Rogelio Perea" <os9dude at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] TRP-100 Thermal Printer
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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> Found the User Manual at http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/systems.htm - Radio
> Shack's support website had nothing on teh TRP-100 nor the ribbon cartridge.
> The User Manual does not provide any reference onto the make of either the
> printer or the ribbon cart.
> 
> Will try to snoop out some lead from the hardware itself this evening.
> 
> 
> 
> -=[ Rogelio ]=-
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Neil Morrison <neilsmorr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Yes. All of the refills, both the cartridge and the refill rolls, say Made
>> in Japan. No other hints as to maker however. Have you looked for a repair
>> manual?
>>
>> Neil