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The 24 needles of my Epson LQ-400 were loud enough to be heard when I rode my bicycle along the street past the property. Convenient to know when a print job fi
by weinzierl 1y ago
The 24 needles of my Epson LQ-400 were loud enough to be heard when I rode my bicycle along the street past the property. Convenient to know when a print job finished[1] but basically made the house inhabitable for the time.
[1] I was going to write "or failed" but I could not remember it ever did. The continuous paper with the tractor feed was quite reliable.
- jacquesm 1y agoThe worst for me were those budget 'one hammer' printers with a revolving bar of single lines where the dots would appear. Those really made a racket. All of these were handily outdone by chainprinters in the datacenter but those were in a soundproofed box.