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 ...

A couple of weeks ago I remarked that a new crop of inexpensive ink jet printers has virtually driven dot matrix printers from the market. That brought calls and letters from some readers who said ...

It might seem like an odd choice, but it turns out there are very good reasons why airlines continue to rely on dot matrix ...

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 printer ...

For many, dot-matrix means ?dodgy old kit?, but Tim Phillips insists that its enduring appeal has enabled this stalwart of the printing world to survive It?s a sure sign of what we euphemistically ...

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. These devices superseded ...

Having recently travelled through too many airports and suffered the depressing indignity of air travel these days (don’t get me started), I had plenty of downtime whiling the hours away at airport ...

For the first time in 10 years, a Canadian arts duo plans to perform a symphony using only obsolete dot matrix printers. The piece, entitled “Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers #2,” will be performed at ...

In an excerpt from his book The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, [Thomas Mullaney] explains how 1980s computer tech — at least the stuff that was developed in the West — was ...

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 ...