Why Airlines Still Use Ancient Dot Matrix Printers To Print Your Boarding Pass

It might seem like an odd choice, but it turns out there are very good reasons why airlines continue to rely on dot matrix ...
Hackaday

Is This The World’s Largest Dot Matrix Printer?

[RyderCalmDown] was watching a road painting vehicle lay down fresh stripes on the road one day and started thinking about the mechanism that lets it paint stripes in such a precise way. Effectively ...
Ars Technica

Dot Matrix Printer issues

We have an application that generates a PDF form. This form needs to be printed on special 6 sheet thick dot matrix form paper, because it needs to be printed 6 copies for legal purposes (bills of ...
Ars Technica

dot matrix printers on OS X

Does anyone have experience running a dot matrix printer on OS X? I'm willing to give up hope of using my Imagewriter II and buy a new (or used) printer to make it go. Have spare computers and could ...
Hackaday

Dot Matrix Printer Gets An Epson Ribbon Transplant

What do you do when your dot matrix printer’s ribbon is torn to shreds after decades of use, and no new cartridges are available? You might like to attempt a ribbon transplant from another printer’s ...