<story><title>How to make your own Selectric Typeballs</title><url>https://github.com/settinger/selectric_typeballs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>Does anyone have a method for sustainable supply of Selectric II ribbons?&lt;p&gt;The Selectric II ribbons that I saw weren&amp;#x27;t like the inked-cloth used by most typewriters and dot-matrix printers -- which could be reused a few times, or even re-inked with a special tool.  The Selectric II ribbons were more like a plastic film with a black coating that was crisply and completely transferred to the paper where the typeball struck it.  (Not great for OPSEC, incidentally.)</text></comment>
<story><title>How to make your own Selectric Typeballs</title><url>https://github.com/settinger/selectric_typeballs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akavel</author><text>Piggy-backing on this thread: does anyone know of any open-hardware computer printer you can DIY at home? (Ideally not using any pre-made ink&amp;#x2F;etc. cartridges; can be a dot-matrix or even Selectric&amp;#x2F;daisy-wheel printer.)</text></comment>