These days a printer — especially one at home — is likely to spray ink out of nozzles. It is getting harder to find home laser printers, and earlier printer technologies such as dot matrix are almost ...

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 printer’s ...

A broken printer can be a source of high-quality components for makers, engineers, and hobbyists, offering parts like stepper motors, precision shafts, optical switches, and power supplies. These ...

In the decade I spent living in Moscow I marveled at how many Russian companies, government offices, banks, and other places of business continued to use dot-matrix printers long after the rest of the ...

As technology has improved, so has airline travel. Nowadays, you can check in for your flight, choose your seats, and even pre-create onboard entertainment playlists via an app on your phone, before ...

A set of dot matrix printers will make beautiful music together, perhaps for the last time For the first time in 10 years, a Canadian arts duo plans to perform a symphony using only obsolete dot ...

Hi all<BR><BR> This is my question. Why would a local print workstation setting change on its own during the course of the day without any change to anything on the machine. <BR><BR>See long ...

With technology continuing to change the way the world travels, there are certain aspects of the airline game that remain very much in the realm of the so-called "old school." Airplanes themselves, ...

In a nutshell: Retrofuturism has made an unlikely comeback in office tech with Toshiba's latest release, the Jimucon SJ-9500. This chunky all-in-one desktop boldly blends vintage components like a dot ...

This past weekend I went on a short vacation to Marianna, FL. This small town is home to the Florida Caverns State Park (Actual caverns! In Florida!) and not a whole lot more. During a 'downtown' ...