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 ...

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 ...

What do you do when your dot matrix printer’s ribbon is torn to shreds after decades of use, and no new cartridges are available? You might like to attempt a ribbon transplant from another ...

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