Vintage Radio Shack TRS-80 Quick Printer Electrostatic 26-1153 w/Box & Spools For Sale

Vintage Radio Shack TRS-80 Quick Printer Electrostatic 26-1153 w/Box & Spools
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Vintage Radio Shack TRS-80 Quick Printer Electrostatic 26-1153 w/Box & Spools:
$429.99

READ: Unit is in excellent condition with original box and 14 rolls of electrostatic paper. No manual. It has been tested GOOD for electric continuity and mechanical feed function. Electrostatic print functions have NOT been tested as I do not have a device which outputs parallel/RS-232.
From: TRS-80 Quick Printer (catalog number 26-1153) was an early TRS-80 printer sold by Radio Shack. Introduced in 1978 for a price of $499.00, the Quick Printer was actually a rebranded Centronics Microprinter P1.

Unlike the more common dot-matrix or daisy-wheel printers (such as the TRS-80 Line Printer or theDaisy Wheel Printer II), the Quick Printer was an “electrostatic” printer that required special aluminum-coated paper. Radio Shack sold a package of three rolls of the 4.75″ wide “aluminized electrostatic spool paper” (catalog number 26-1405) for $16.95.

The Quick Printer worked by electrically burning away the aluminum coating of the paper. With the aluminum burnt away, the black backing paper underneath was exposed. The printing/burning process created both a very distinctive odor and sparks that were clearly visible when printing in a dark room.

Characters were created using a 5 by 8 matrix at a maximum speed of 150 lines per minute. The output, described as “black-on-silver,” reproduced well on photocopiers.

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