5 Mar
2013
5 Mar
'13
2:50 p.m.
On 03/05/2013 02:23 PM, geneb wrote:
ing 9-wire printhead. I've only seen (and used) one.
The most interesting printer I've seen was an Epson MX-80 (I _think_).
What made it interesting was how it was driven. The print head had a
pin in the bottom of it that followed a spiral groove cut in a spinning
cylinder that went the width of the printer. Very neat to watch. :)
A lot of those types of things were used on narrow cash-register tape
type printers. One side to the other and back again.
There was a printer that was advertised that wrote using a stylus and
even had software to add a bit of randomization to the character
formation to emulate human handwriting. I don't recall the model.
Still, an old drum line printer would be pretty cool to have...
--Chuck