That story took a turn
When I started reading I expected it to be something like "only a small number of Selectrics had the port to be hooked up as a typewriter and IBM had quit supporting that years ago, but this company had a long standing support contract that would have forced IBM to do so at great expense so they ended up furnishing a free top of the line laser printer in exchange for agreeing to remove that from their support contract" or "that was a prototype product that never should have escaped IBM's labs and we don't know how it got into a customer's hands".
So I guess it was normal to hook up a Selectric to use as a printer? Anyone ever see one in action? How fast was it able to print?