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 ...

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 For many companies that use outdated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dot matrix printers, despite being mostly obsolete, have a somewhat vintage aesthetic that plenty of people still find desirable and recreate them in plenty of other ways as well, like this 3D ...

Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the 1980s required separate monitors, external hard drives, dot-matrix printers, and many different accessories.

This is witnessed most clearly in the then-dominant configuration of printer heads—specifically the 9-pin printer heads found in mass-manufactured dot-matrix printers during the 1970s.

The researchers also noted that some papers, such as those used in dot-matrix printers, are exceptionally good at cutting.

For instance, dot-matrix printers typically printed at 120 characters per second, while the HP ThinkJet printed at 150 characters per second. The former technology also emits high-pitch scratching ...

If you've not heard of the former, dot matrix paper is used in specific types of computer printers for creating business ...

Toshiba’s Jimucon SJ-9500 combines a mix of retro hardware Features include dot matrix printing, DVD drive, touchscreen, SSDs Customizable for industries, offers broad connectivity and energy ...