31 Jan
2010
31 Jan
'10
7:11 p.m.
On Jan 31, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I was amazed that Epson still seem to sell 9 pin and
24 pin dot matrix
printers. Presumably some people still require multi-part carbon
forms.
And the printer ribbon vartridge seems to be unchanged from the
days of
the MX80, you can still get ribbons for that machine.
Okidata does too, as do many other manufacturers. Even the
venerable Okidata Microline 320 is available with a USB interface.
They're almost always used for multi-part forms and individual
print jobs which require less than a whole page of output, like
receipt printers. I'm doing some consulting work for a local retail
chain that uses USB-connected Oki 320s as receipt printers for single-
part pin-fed forms. This is preferable to a laser printer because
they get three to a page, significantly reducing their paper usage.
Dedicated thermal receipt printers are nice, but from what I've
heard they're not as reliable as dot-matrix impact printers in the
field. That seems odd to me, but I guess the heating elements dying
does make some sense.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL