Tandy DWP-230 - standard print wheels?

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Do they use the standard plastic wheels still out there or did Tandy do their typical and make them "custom"?

 

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It looks like it might take Canon wheels, I'll grab a cheap one and give it a try. Someone on here had the same printer and not sure if they gave up or not. I'll report back if it works or not. Really kind of cool having a daisy again, until the wheel disintegrated due to being so brittle. Wasn't stored in a good place.

I think the Qume, and other similar wheels will work as well. Catalog said it took standard diablo 630 wheels and that makes sense given the history.

 

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Ok, so as an update, the Canon wheels are not set in the same order as the Tandy wheel. So, Diablo wheels match the few keys I still have on the broken wheel and I'll be testing out one of those next. Once I get a better idea of the wheels I'll let you guys know. This is probably something that would be good in the Model 2 archive since many businesses would have used one of these.

Now I could be real stubborn and use a device filter to translate all the keys to what they should be, but thats silly. But it would work.

 

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Genuine Diablo wheels work perfectly in this one. Also, I took it apart and it appears it has a motor with "brother" on the sticker. Didn't think Tandy used them as a source. I didn't even know the made printers back then of this size.

Now, to go play with SCRIPSIT Pro and retro print a letter to someone, anyone haha.