retrocomputing: driving 'miss' daisywheel

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:25:45PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> I still deal with impact printers because I still have to deal with (from
> time to time) multi-part forms that use that carbonless carbon paper. For
> that stuff you must have an impact printer, though in my case I use
> dot-matrix printers. Still about 15 years ago I was using (even by that
> times) old daisy wheel printer to spit out cheques for my then (now
> bankrupt) employer....
> 
> Also, while I don't know about daisywheel printers I do know that some firms
> such as Lexmark are still building/selling dot matrix printers for business
> forms handling....

Well Epson still makes a few models of the LQ series dot matrix
printers.

Those multipart forms just won't go away... :)

Lennart Sorensen
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