If you’ve got a dot matrix printer ribbon that’s dried up but not yet falling apart, you can always try reinking it. Video after the break. Try another test print and it's working perfectly.

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, 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, ...

A programmer named Andrew Schmelyun built a system that prints out daily news on an old-fashioned dot matrix printer. He says the one page helps him stay informed without getting sucked into ...

That seems to be the case for dot matrix printers, clunky and noisy pieces of machinery that major U.S. airlines, such as American and Delta, have continued to use for years.

Unlike modern laser printers, a dot matrix printer has a single print head and an inked ribbon. Neither the print head nor the ribbon last forever, and problems that develop usually indicate ...

Robert Howard, who invented the dot-matrix printer that helped fuel sales of personal computers, was remembered this week for his curiosity and generosity. Howard, who died recently at age 91 ...

Toshiba glued an old-school dot matrix printer with a DVD drive, a touchscreen display and a PC with two SSDs — and it even runs Windows 10. Story by Wayne Williams • 1w.

Kenneth picked up an old dot matrix printer from a swap meet for only $5–what a steal! He then used a BeagleBone –basically Texas Instruments’s version of an Arduino board, to connect it to ...

As spotted by Tom’s Hardware, YouTuber Ryder Damen (who runs the channel Ryder Calm Down) uses a Raspberry Pi to control his homebrew “printer,” which involves a pickup truck, water, and a ...

Of course, since this is an all-in-one unit, you also get a 15-inch color touchscreen panel with a 1024 x 768 resolution mounted right on the printer. Under the hood, there's a humble 8GB of RAM ...

Toshiba glued an old-school dot matrix printer with a DVD drive, a touchscreen display and a PC with two SSDs — and it even runs Windows 10. News. By Wayne Williams published 17 November 2024 ...