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Originally Posted by nasadowsk
Actually, Tek is slimey like that, they generally dump their lifetime stuff after a few years. Remember those Tek color printers with 'free black ink for life'? Yep, no longer free.
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Actually, it's still free. And Tektronix doesn't even own the printer division anymore. It was sold to Xerox. I work for a computer services company, and I repair Tektronix and Xerox Phaser color printers. And on the old 840, 850 and 860 printers, you can still get the black ink for free, directly from the distributor. The color ink sticks also come with two free black ink sticks on those models, in addition to the free three-packs of black ink that are available. HOWEVER - the distributor also sells five packs of black ink for those same models. You do have to know about the free black ink program... Now, on later models like the 8200 and 8400, the black ink is no longer free - but that was after Tektronix sold off their printer division - the 8200 was technically a Xerox product.
Actually, speaking of Tektronix lifetime power transformers... anyone got any extra ones laying around? I need a couple for an upcoming homebrew tube based project, and I really like the tek transformers. I'll trade you some black Phaser ink...
-Ian