dot matrix printers
Impact grid printers
Dot matrix printers are impact printers that form characters and images by striking an ink ribbon with a grid of pins, creating patterns of dots on paper.
Common in offices through the 1980s and 1990s, they were noisy but cheap to operate and could print through carbon copies.
They survive mainly for multipart forms and industrial applications where impact printing is required.
The old dot matrix printer in the warehouse still handles our shipping labels.
Slender ornamental strip
- perforationHole punched through something
- fanfoldPaper folded in alternating creases
- carriageWheeled passenger vehicle
- platenPrinting press surface
Loud rattling noise
- rat-a-tatRapid knocking sound
- whirContinuous humming sound
- clackSharp percussive noise
- grindingMolar action sometimes
chatter · buzzing · humming · clicking · screeching · rhythmic · droning · mechanical
Old and outdated
- outdatedNo longer in use
- discontinuedNo longer available
- supersededReplaced by something newer
- relicPreserved ancient object
vintage · legacy · deprecated · mothballed · bygone · old-fashioned · defunct · abandoned
Composed of visible squares
- blockyResembling stacked cubes
- jaggedSharply uneven, notched
- bitmapPixel-based image format
- rasterGrid of pixels
draft mode · coarse · grainy · low resolution · banding · striping · monochrome · printout
ribbon
Slender ornamental strip
- perforationHole punched through something
- fanfoldPaper folded in alternating creases
- carriageWheeled passenger vehicle
clatter
Loud rattling noise
grinding · chatter · buzzing · humming · clicking · screeching · rhythmic · droning · mechanical · loud
antiquated
Old and outdated
- outdatedNo longer in use
- discontinuedNo longer available
- supersededReplaced by something newer
relic · vintage · legacy · deprecated · mothballed · bygone · old-fashioned · defunct · abandoned · phased out
pixelated
Composed of visible squares
raster · draft mode · coarse · grainy · low resolution · banding · striping · monochrome · printout
- vintage techvintage cameras, transistor radios, vacuum tubes, turntables, phonographs
- obsolete media8-track, Betamax, cassette tapes, floppy disks, gramophones
dot matrix printerslaser printers
Machines producing pages via focused light
inkjet printers · thermal printers · offset printing · plotters
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