"ALPS MD 5000 Printer Question" Topic
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| haywire | 02 Nov 2015 7:13 a.m. PST |
I have an ALPS MD 5000 printer that is not working. Its been sitting in storage for a long time. I want to place it up on ebay to sell as parts. I want to verify whether or not it has the dye sublimation upgrade. Does anyone here who has one know how to verify this part? All I see is a number on the part MX9B0058H, but I do not know if that is the upgrade or if that is the placeholder for the upgrade. Anyone know? Thank you! |
 Doms Decals  | 02 Nov 2015 8:52 a.m. PST |
This is the dye-sub upgrade component:
To be honest it probably makes no difference anyway – what's left of the Alps user base is pretty much entirely decal printers, for whom the dye sub upgrade's useless. |
| haywire | 02 Nov 2015 9:12 a.m. PST |
Hi Dom, So if I have that piece it is the dye sub upgrade? There isn't a "dummy part" that goes in the same spot that looks exactly the same? |
| Doms Decals | 02 Nov 2015 10:45 a.m. PST |
Not that I know of – I certainly never noticed one when I was using a (non dye-sub) MD-5000. Probably academic anyway – I don't know of anyone who uses the Dye Sub in this day and age – it was for photo printing, and inkjet technology overtook its quality a decade or more ago. |
| haywire | 03 Nov 2015 7:33 a.m. PST |
Thank you for your help Dom! |
| JimDuncanUK | 03 Nov 2015 5:33 p.m. PST |
Good God, I can remember when dye sublimation printers first hit the market. I tested quite a few of them. |
| Doms Decals | 03 Nov 2015 5:42 p.m. PST |
Good bits of kit in their day, but yeah, that day was a while ago now…. ;-) |
| Antioch | 14 Dec 2015 6:20 p.m. PST |
Haywire, you actually can still find dye sub a lot in the awards & recognition buisness. There is a huge outfit in the us called Johnson plastics.. If anyone would know I imagine they would. They are primarily an outlet for wholesale to the retailers but they probably would know, if you wanted to contact them |
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