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til you can still easily buy continuously feedable paper for dot matrix printers on amazon - was wondering if that was a scarce resource for a project like this
by joeyparsons 2y ago
til you can still easily buy continuously feedable paper for dot matrix printers on amazon - was wondering if that was a scarce resource for a project like this! kudos!
- aschmelyun 2y agoIt’s pretty expensive though! I got the smallest box I could, 1000 sheets, from Staples for $30.
- tonyedgecombe 2y agoYou can still buy new impact printers. https://printronix.com/line-matrix-printers/ https://printronix.com/line-matrix-printers/
- awad 2y agoI've seen dot matrix still used at car dealerships so doesn't totally surprise me there'd still be plenty of industry uses
- Scoundreller 2y agoIt’s great for printing on carbon copy duplicate/triplicate paper that needs to be signed one time on all copies.
- Tor3 2y agoI've seen dot matrix printers used in backrooms of airlines (which I have visited for reporting lost luggage, sometimes). This would mostly be smaller airlines (as the now defunct Berlin Air)
- tomjen3 2y agoI could see piping all syslog critial and above out to a .matrix printer that sits in a locked room as a cheap way to enforce a WORM log of events. With a continious sheet of paper you would only need to access it rarely, and essentially only to change the ribbon and replace the paper source.