Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.periphs.printers Subject: Re: how dot matrix printers placed text Date: 9 Jul 2024 09:08:43 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <668b38fd$0$1439840$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net nxfEwErlYAhoB9YG+h/Piwk60wDJ3xNALW079ssu2aZUhS++MD Cancel-Lock: sha1:KYyMhBcK122581lwZVG+6nUkas0= sha256:kohW8bt65lnWrPIWxhGMmO8fvtMbHrGxV1vRFgFYhFI= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:25220 comp.periphs.printers:4659 On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:29:49 +0000, Scott Dorsey wrote: > Retrograde wrote: >>Our first printer was a dot matrix model, from I think a brand called >>Star or something similar. Back then, in 1991 or so, a lot of employers >>in The Netherlands offered programs wherein employees could buy >>computers through their work, offered at a certain discount. My parents >>jumped on the opportunity when my mom’s employer offered such a program, >>and through it, we bought a brand new 286 machine running MS-DOS and >>Windows 3.0, and it included said dot matrix printer. > > That would be Star Micronics. A step below Epson, a step above > Panasonic. > --scott I bought my first dot matrix printer in 1984 (I remember this because I was printing while the Olympics was on, with Zola Budd etc.) It was a Canon PW1080A. It did normal printing, and also NLQ (Near Letter Quality) which wasn't bad for the day. It printed each line twice (bidirectional) filling in the gaps on the second pass.