Also known as a "serial dot matrix printer." The dot matrix printer uses one or two columns of dot hammers that are moved across the paper. The hammers rapidly press the ribbon into the paper ...

Dot matrix printers are the dinosaurs that won’t go extinct. They are not unlike a typewriter with the type bars behind the ink ribbon replaced by a row of metal pins controlled by solenoids ...

No matter the printer ... work. The structure of the ribbon inside a GX-80 cartridge is remarkably similar to the tape loop in a Roland Space Echo. My first attempt at reinking the dot matrix ...

An early impact printer that combined band printer and dot matrix technologies. It used a revolving band, but dots were on the band instead of the actual characters. Bands with different dot sizes ...

The politics of early dot-matrix printing—this embedded Latin-alphabet centrism—ran even deeper, as discovered in the early ...