Earlier this month, [Kenneth] picked up an old dot matrix printer at the Silicon Valley Flea Market and subsequently found two cases of tractor feed printer paper. It’s a marriage made in hea… ...

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 But by the late 1990s dot matrix printers were largely superseded by the technologically superior laser and ink jet printers.

Don't let a malfunctioning dot matrix printer give you fits. Learn some techniques for solving several common dot matrix printer problems and advice on finding increasingly scarce parts.

Pins or wires in a vertical row comprise the print head of a dot matrix printer. It moves horizontally, creating characters by pushing various pins, not unlike a typewriter. Current dot matrix ...

How Does a Dot Matrix Printer Work?. 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.

Why do airlines still use dot matrix printers? “I’m so tired of those damn things,” one airline crew member told us.

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 ...

This office "workhorse" incorporates a 24-pin dot matrix printer, allowing it to churn out forms at a standard rate of 180 characters per second, with speeds hitting 240 characters per second if ...

As China entered the era of personal computing, most printers could only output western characters. Reprogramming them required uncommon ingenuity.

Neo, the hero of “ The Matrix,” is sure he lives in 1999. He has a green-hued cathode-ray-tube computer screen and a dot-matrix printer. His city has working phone booths.