Dot Matrix Printer

[Stewart C. Russell]

lada-h8kxHjy+vg4AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I have to print multi-sheet forms and want to use a dot matrix printer to
> do that. I wonder where I can get a cheap dot matrix printer.

The humble DMP is now a niche item, and is expected to be a heavy-duty
workhorse. Cheapest I saw new was about $200, from GreyTech (via
<http://bbf.ca/>).

If you want to go really old-skool, I've got an IBM Wheelwriter
daisywheel. Slow, but real purty.

If/when you buy this, make sure you can drive it as a text printer. You
don't want to know how slow and cruddy an impact printer doing graphics
can be ... (and at this point, someone will no doubt reminisce about how
they did their thesis graphs with a daisywheel driver that used the
period character as pixels).

 Stewart
(who used to know one of the senior designers of the Okidata ML series)
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml