While laser and inkjet printers are increasingly popular, older technology still has value in daily life. Dot matrix printers are similar to manual typewriters, with a history dating back over 100 ...

These days a printer — especially one at home — is likely to spray ink out of nozzles. It is getting harder to find home laser printers, and earlier printer technologies such as dot matrix are almost ...

In a nutshell: Retrofuturism has made an unlikely comeback in office tech with Toshiba's latest release, the Jimucon SJ-9500. This chunky all-in-one desktop boldly blends vintage components like a dot ...

Excerpted from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, by Thomas S. Mullaney. Published by The MIT Press. Copyright © 2024 MIT. All rights ...

We have an application that generates a PDF form. This form needs to be printed on special 6 sheet thick dot matrix form paper, because it needs to be printed 6 copies for legal purposes (bills of ...

A pattern of dots that forms character and graphic images on printers. Although inkjet and laser printers print in dots, and monitors display dots as well, the term generally refers to images created ...

This is the American version of the MP-80 printer . Epson's MX-80 dot matrix printer became the most popular PC printer during this era. IBM adopted the printer for sale with its Personal Computer ...

Does anyone have experience running a dot matrix printer on OS X? I'm willing to give up hope of using my Imagewriter II and buy a new (or used) printer to make it go. Have spare computers and could ...

Ink! No matter the printer you’ve got, whether it be inkjet, laser or otherwise, it’s the consumables that will send you broke. At times, the cost of Hewlett-Packard black ink has exceeded the price ...

[Credit: The Life of Kenneth] Twitter tickers have been around for a little while now, but this creative use of an old dot matrix printer by a modder named Kenneth is really a fun way to utilize old ...