There was much whooping and hollering, as there often is when a dot matrix printer screams into life ... as the excess WD40 was absorbed by the paper after a few prints. Digging out an old blue ...

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, which causes the ink to be deposited.

The noise of a dot matrix printer is probably as synonymous with 1980s computing as the modem handshake would become with the desktop experience a decade or more later. But unlike the computers ...

If you've not heard of the former, dot matrix paper is used in specific types of computer printers for creating business ...

This office "workhorse" incorporates a 24-pin dot matrix printer ... per second if you’re in a hurry. The printer can handle wide-format paper (up to 304.8mm) and tackle multi-copy tasks ...