HP-19C Repair Odysee

[Kostas Kritsilas]

I had a thought that the printheads from current thermal strip printers used on POS (point of sale) terminals may be worth looking into. As far as I have been able to determine, they are just a row of print elements all the way across the thermal paper, not a moving print head. However, on my 82143A printer, the replacement paper is the same as the thermal strip printers (2 1/4" wide, or so).

The alternative is to look at the printer mechanisms from the 82143/A, 82163 (the HP-IL printer) or the HP 82240/A/B. If these printers have replacement heads and/or mechanisms, that could be another way to go.