29 May
2009
29 May
'09
1:12 a.m.
John Foust wrote:
At 04:26 PM 5/28/2009, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I suspect because daisywheel printers had such terms in their technical
vocabulary that is why they are so rarely seen today :-)
I also had a lot of trouble with the daisy wheel other such moving head
printers having problems with platen positioning and running the head
into the platten, hence damaging the paper due to the fact one could
loosen the platen for positioning.
Once the norm was just tractor wheel feed, that pretty much became a
thing of the past.
Jim
On 28 May 2009 at 13:30, John Foust wrote:
OK, I'll bite. What would be set wrongly to make it do this?
I'm not talking about a printer that can print on the return to
to the left... The Wikipedia article makes it sound like the
text prints "backwards" on every other line.
- John
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
I found "Sometimes computer printers with a typewriter-like
moving type head print boustrophedon if set up wrongly."
Which old printers might've done that?
Just about any of the old daisywheels or dot matrix printers. George
Comstock (of Diablo) first acquainted me with the word
"boustrophedonic"--"plowing like an ox" many years ago.