| r00t-home | brolin_empey: shoouldn't the question pretty much be "was there", for dot-matrix printers? | 01:39 |
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| brolin_empey | r00t-home: No, it should be present tense because dot-matrix impact printers are still used and produced but have been largely replaced by inkjet and laser printers for home/consumer usage. | 01:41 |
| r00t-home | ok, right | 01:42 |
| r00t-home | but it seems would guess it's more likely that one was being produced in the past than one being produced now | 01:43 |
| r00t-home | s/would guess it's// | 01:43 |
| infobot | r00t-home meant: but it seems more likely that one was being produced in the past than one being produced now | 01:43 |
| brolin_empey | Dot-matrix impact printers are still produced because businesses still use them because they still have advantages over laser and inkjet printers, such as the abilities to print on continuous paper and to print on multiple sheets of paper at once, which is useful for forms. Colour dot-matrix impact printers may have been discontinued but I do not know if those were ever popular with business users in the first place. | 02:04 |
| r00t-home | until recently my dentist had one at the receoption to fill multi-sheet forms, yes | 02:06 |
| r00t-home | but still it seems more likely that a duplex one was produced when they were state of the art for office use, than now when they are much less common | 02:07 |
| brolin_empey | Also, current dot-matrix impact printers may still be able to print by being sent plain text instead of having to use a page description language such as PCL or PostScript. Also, businesses often use legacy software, such as DOS applications designed to print to a dot-matrix impact printer, such as the IBM/Epson Graphics de-facto standard printer that is supported by all versions of Windows from Windows 1.01 in 1985 to Windows 10 (client edition of Windows | 02:12 |
| brolin_empey | NT 10) in 2015. | 02:12 |
| brolin_empey | Is it Epson? | 02:15 |
| brolin_empey | I think dot-matrix impact printers are still common in some commercial or industrial environments. | 02:18 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | yes, they are. They got some significant advantages over laser (prone to manipulation by removing toner with razorblade) and inkjet (terrible quality on some paper types, no literal carbon copy) | 17:38 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | anyway I'd think *every* printer (except GDI(?) "windows"-printers) has a mode where it accepts plain ASCII and prints an internal default font | 17:41 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | obviously USB- and ethernet-attached printers will need a driver on PC for LPT: aka /dev/lp | 17:44 |
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