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198X Canon Typestar 5 Serial # G12145862 198X Canon Typestar 5 typewriter, Serial # G12145862 Jacob OBoyle's 198X Canon Typestar 5 typewriter. 2023-01-09 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Jacob OBoyle: 198X Canon Typestar 5 Serial # G12145862 Found this beauty at, of all places, an estate sale, after months of searching for a Typestar 5, the (then) ideal thermal machine in my opinion. For only $20, it came with the original manual and a healthy amount of spare ribbon cassettes in a laptop bag, a perfect storage vessel. She types like a dream and prints perfectly, but the line space motor or the gears associated with it are stuck, so she doesn't space properly, if at all. Because of this I named her Karen, pronounced the Japanese way because Canon is, of course, a Japanese company.
I found another Typestar 5 on eBay for only $5 more and with a fully functional line spacer, so I've decided to part ways with this beauty.

198X Canon Typestar 5 #G12145862

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Jacob OBoyle (JOByl57)
Created: 01-09-2023 at 12:49PM
Last Edit: 01-09-2023 at 12:55PM

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Found this beauty at, of all places, an estate sale, after months of searching for a Typestar 5, the (then) ideal thermal machine in my opinion. For only $20, it came with the original manual and a healthy amount of spare ribbon cassettes in a laptop bag, a perfect storage vessel. She types like a dream and prints perfectly, but the line space motor or the gears associated with it are stuck, so she doesn't space properly, if at all. Because of this I named her Karen, pronounced the Japanese way because Canon is, of course, a Japanese company.
I found another Typestar 5 on eBay for only $5 more and with a fully functional line spacer, so I've decided to part ways with this beauty.

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A less aesthetically pleasing view of the typewriter's face
A less aesthetically pleasing view of the typewriter's face

Under the "ribbon cover" - the cylinder with the string of gears on the right is the line spacer, don't know exactly what is wrong with it, but I know it doesn't work.
Under the "ribbon cover" - the cylinder with the string of gears on the right is the line spacer, don't know exactly what is wrong with it, but I know it doesn't work.

Bottom of the machine
Bottom of the machine

Serial number plate
Serial number plate

Side profile showing power switch, adapter port, and density dial
Side profile showing power switch, adapter port, and density dial

Cover of the user manual
Cover of the user manual

A very bad picture of the key map
A very bad picture of the key map

One last aesthetic long shot
One last aesthetic long shot

Hunter: Jacob OBoyle (JOByl57)

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