Before the 1980s, laser printers were expensive, high-volume units. At that time, dot matrix printers commanded the early PC desktop market for homes and businesses. Compact laser printers ...

For as long as there have been personal computers, computer enthusiasts have been told that when it comes to printers, they can’t have their cake and eat it too. Either you used a dot matrix ...

Dot matrix printers, also known as impact matrix devices, are an older kind of printer that relies on an ink-soaked ribbon similar to that used in a typewriter. These devices were the most common ...

Check out more from the series here. Listener and reader Geoffrey Newton from Falls Church, Virginia, asks: Why do airlines still use dot matrix printers? For many companies that use outdated ...

t jam. Just as the mainframe has proved to be more robust than anyone expected, so it is with the high-end dot-matrix printer. It?s not exactly a gold-mine, but unlike selling laser printers, at least ...

The subject of the post is the dot matrix printer. Early printers had nine pins, which was sufficient to make Latin characters in one pass. To print Chinese, each character required at least two ...