What we dislike: Setup takes time. Fairly noisy. Choice 3: Epson LX-350 Dot Matrix Printer Our take: Impressive nine-pin dot matrix printer offering good value and fast, effective printing.

Dot matrix printers are similar to manual typewriters, with a history dating back over 100 years. These beloved devices feature an ink-filled ribbon that’s struck by a print head to mark paper ...

A typical desktop laser printer turns out about four full-color pages per minute; for black-and-white text, this rises to 25 pages per minute. Dot matrix printers are typically rated at between ...

Dot matrix printers rely on a printhead in which a grid of 9 or 24 pins forms combinations to produce text, box-drawing characters and symbols made up of closely spaced dots.

Dot matrix printers are similar to manual typewriters, with a history dating back over 100 years. These beloved devices feature an ink-filled ribbon that’s struck by a print head to mark paper ...

The newer printers have more pins to build characters with finer resolution. The Epson LQ-800 uses 24 pins, like many of the new “letter- quality” dot matrix printers.

Any printer that can be installed in Windows can be shared. Dot matrix is no exception.<BR><BR>Dot matrix printers usually work much better when they are shared off of a server, though. Quote Report D ...

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 ...

At the time, such printers were plentiful and cheap. But by the late 1990s dot matrix printers were largely superseded by the technologically superior laser and ink jet printers.

Dot-matrix printers are a favourite for our readership. Among others, we’ve seen another Commodore get the Python treatment, as well as an Apple capable of printing in full colour.

The piece, entitled “Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers #2,” will be performed at the Mutek electronic music festival, held next week in Montreal.