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 heaven for a ...

A printer that uses hammers and a ribbon to form images from dots. Used to print multipart forms and address labels, the tractor and sprocket mechanism in these devices handles thicker media better ...

Impact printers, whether they use dot-matrix technology that uses small pins or daisy-wheel technology that uses a wheel with pre-formed characters like a typewriter, all work by having an element ...

Some businesses still use dot matrix printers to generate invoices, forms and other documents. Unlike modern laser printers, a dot matrix printer has a single print head and an inked ribbon. Neither ...

From giant cell phones to old motherboards, outdated technology holds great value for collectors like Jason Savitt. "The older it is, the harder it is to get it to work," Savitt says. In many cases, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clanwilliam Health and the HSE’s eHealth Ireland programme have launched a ‘war’ on dot matrix printers, ahead of the planned roll-out of ePrescribing next year. GPs currently rely on this inefficient ...

When a Minnesota outfit of all-star DIY-ers called 1.21 Jigawatts won this summer's Red Bull Creation Contest, we couldn't wait to have them create a project just for PM readers. Here, a couple of ...

[Credit: The Life of Kenneth] Twitter tickers have been around for a little while now, but this creative use of an old dot matrix printer by a modder named Kenneth is really a fun way to utilize old ...

Last week we brought you the story of Young Rival's John Smith, not only the bassist of the band but the central creative force behind the band's inventive music videos. Today, with the release of ...