5 Mar
2013
5 Mar
'13
2:23 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 03/05/2013 12:26 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Then there were the wide-carriage Hitypes for bank use with three printheads.
A wonder to watch operating.
I had a Mannesmann-Tally(sp?) printer that had three printheads on it.
Each did a third of the page, but were also stepped a line up vertically.
A collectible printer today might be the Diablo
dot-matrix printer. About the
size of a regular RO Hitype, but with an incredibly loud shrieking 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. :)
g.
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