Hi David,

RadioSpares are at www.RS-Components.com. If you are in the USA you will
need to use UK export IIRC, set up an account (does not cost anything) and
they will quote you, and you get access to the online technical library.

What brand and make is the print head ?



The electro thermal uses a silver paper, which is at ground potential, and
just puts a voltage on the print head pin, the short circuit current burns
the paper thus creating the image, Axiom corp. made lots of these printers.
From what I remember, this method did not have problems with varying print
density ie all black or no print, as the print head did not warm all that
much.

Regards,

Kat.
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From: "David VanHorn" <dvanhorn@CEDAR.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: A printing conundrum


> At 07:40 AM 11/8/01 +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> >I know this is not the answer, but IIRC RS (RadioSpares) has a dedicated
> >print head controller IC. I guess you have checked the manufactureres
site
> >(I hope they have one) to see how they recommend to do it ?
>
> Where do you find radiospares?  I've heard the name, but I can't remember
> where.
>
>
> >I prefer the electro thermal system, seemed easier to use :o)
>
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