got my dot-matrix printer

On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, geneb wrote: Ah, but the NX-1000 are only 9-pin and very /slow/. I still own two, one of the plain NX-1000s and one of the color versions (NS-1000 Plus?) For standard black only use, I found I tended to prefer the Panasonic KX-P1123/1124 (24-pin) which was both fast and fairly quiet. The KX-P1180 (9-pin) was also a workhorse but much louder and slower. The 1123/1124/1080 all support a serial option, which to me was very useful, but the add-on board would probably be very difficult to find today. I do have one of the color KX-P2123 printers, but have never used it much. Epson's LQ-570/570 Plus/870 series is also fairly decent, although I did manage to wear out the carriage motor in a LQ-570 once (the sleeve bearings in the stepper motor completely wore out). I'd have replaced the bearings in the motor instead of paying ~$60+ for the whole motor except someone who thought they knew better than me took a punch to the motor's housing and destroyed it while trying to "tighten up" the bearings. Sigh. Still, nothing beats an older model Oikdata.