It's been many years since printing from a PC involved little more than buying a printer and some ink, then purchasing extra cartridges when needed. Today, the...
My favorite dot matrix memory is printing a like 400 page Breath of Fire 3 strategy guide on a daisy wheel dot matrix, and it took over night to print and everyone in the house complained about the constant ditditditditditditditditdit
edit: And the ribbon was so worn out that you needed forensic equipment to read it, but i persevered.
It’ll come in handy later on when you’re in that government doomsday shelter and you need to print a hard copy of the nuke disarm codes on the line printer that was big enough to need a tarp as a dust cover.
I have wiped a toner cartridge with a paper towel and chucked thst sucker back into a ye olde HP from 20 years ago with a broken guider clip and it still prints perfectly fine.
I wiped it because it was leaving a smudge at the edge of the paper after never cleaning the rollers for aforementioned 20 years.
I guess I can add briefcase printer for mission impossible as a use case for inkjet lol
Virtually useless unless it supports non consumer ink cartridges or you buy chinese drop in knockoffs.
And even then only if you need to print graphics/images in high quality.
All hail laser.
No love for the 9 pin dot matrix?
I would love to have the same model Star Micronics I had in the 90s. Selectable tractor or friction feed, 24pin, multiple text fonts…it was nice.
My favorite dot matrix memory is printing a like 400 page Breath of Fire 3 strategy guide on a daisy wheel dot matrix, and it took over night to print and everyone in the house complained about the constant ditditditditditditditditdit
edit: And the ribbon was so worn out that you needed forensic equipment to read it, but i persevered.
I remeber being 7 or 8 and rolling a ream of that paper down our hall and drawing dinosaurs from one end to the other
Bit late now, but a tiny squirt of WD-40 into the ribbon cartridge often got you another few hundred pages out of it.
about 30 years too late, lol
But thats gonna be one of those things thats gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of my life.
It’ll come in handy later on when you’re in that government doomsday shelter and you need to print a hard copy of the nuke disarm codes on the line printer that was big enough to need a tarp as a dust cover.
hooray my fuser has jammed, my transfer belt has stretched, toner is smeared everywhere, my printer weighs a ton.
How often are you moving your printer that the weight is a concern?
I have wiped a toner cartridge with a paper towel and chucked thst sucker back into a ye olde HP from 20 years ago with a broken guider clip and it still prints perfectly fine.
I wiped it because it was leaving a smudge at the edge of the paper after never cleaning the rollers for aforementioned 20 years.
I guess I can add briefcase printer for mission impossible as a use case for inkjet lol
HP Laserjet 4000 here. I love it. I could use it to kill a skunk and then put it back on the desk and print a novel for $0.25