That is not an official HP site with sanctioned information... i.e. some
of it may be incorrect.  HP has told us that they would not accept
maintenance contracts for the 256X printers after October 1999.  We have
2563C printers in the bunch. They are already off contract.  So it may
indeed be possible that HP will not make ribbons after 2001.

I sure wish they'd put up their own officially sanctioned site with EOS
dates!

Cynthia Fowler wrote:
>
> I think your supplier is misinformed. The 256x "C" models do not go off support until
> 9/30/02, so I don't know why they would stop manufacturing ribbons for printers that
> are still supported. For more information, see:
>
>                    http://www.hp3000links.com/eosperiph.htm
>
> Cynthia Bridges-Fowler
> MIS Operations Analyst
> IMC Salt, Inc., a division of IMC Global
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> >>> Thomas Hoffmann <[log in to unmask]> 07/14/00 10:33AM >>>
> We heard from a supplier, that HP will stop manufacturing ribbons for
> 256x Printers by 1/1/2001 (because these printers are very old and out
> of support).
>
> We have several 256x Printers perfectly working day after day, and do
> not want to throw them away.
>
> Does anyone know if this is true?
> Are there other brands/manufacturers of ribbons for 256x Printers?
>
> Thank you
> T. Hoffmann