24 Jun
2014
24 Jun
'14
2:28 p.m.
On Jun 24, 2014, at 5:15 PM, Eric Smith <spacewar at gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Chris Osborn
<fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
For one thing, you need more pixels for lower case. Early dot matrix printers had, I
think, 5x7 matrix for the uppercase only model, but needed at least 7x9 for lowercase.
(Then there were printers with something like 16x16 matrix, for printing Japanese text.)
paul
I was also able to hook it up to a computer and
print on it. It has no
lowercase! I'm amazed at how cheap/short-sighted they were to not put in
lowercase.
That's not due to being cheap or short-sighted, it's due to product
positioning. They either offered lower case as an option, or as a more
expensive model, I don't rememer which. That was standard practice in the
printer industry for many years.