Last typewriter factory in the world shuts its doors

[Colin McGregor]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 05:50:16PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
>> Yes, but... There are some firms that for one reason or another DEPEND
>> on multi-part forms (that require impact printers), most firms, and
>> most situations are well served by laser / inkjet printers. So, while
>> there is a steady / modest market for impact printers it is no longer
>> part of the computer mainstream. Sad, but true, specialty items
>> command a specialty item price tag...
>
> Whatever happened to daisy wheel printers?  They had beautiful letters,
> but of course no graphics at all.  Those were pretty much computer
> controlled electronic typewriters.

Yes, last time I crossed paths with a daisy wheel printer was about
1990. I was the IT department for a small real estate developer, and
at the time the firm had a secretary typing out cheques that had to go
out. To my mind this was silly, and when I found a Xerox daisy wheel
serial printer gathering dust in the office I saw a solution. So, a
BIG heavy printer with fantastic print quality, loud, and slow
compared to other printers, but a LOT faster than having a secretary
type things...

I suspect speed is why the dot matrix printers have held on in the
market while daisy wheels have all but disappeared.

Colin.

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