avemal Loc: BALTIMORE

Anyone ever use this printing device?

Najataagihe

Are you talking about a printer that uses fan-fold paper?

therwol Loc: USA

Dot matrix printer? I haven't seen one in many years. I used one with my Commodore 64. The IBM printers I used in college had a rotating, circular chain with letters, and a hammer made the imprint as the chain flew by.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Sprocket feed Dot Matrix printer.
I used one with my Color Computer and first PC. Gotta be 25+years ago!
I loved fan-fold for program code listings!!!

BebuLamar

I used them dot matrix impact printers but the first printer I ever bought was an inkjet printer in 1989.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Have not seen one of those in many years!

Don

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

There are printers that can handle very long pieces of paper. These are roll printers. Not cheap. Here's discussion of some:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4113782

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

That's true, but they don't have sprocket feed, do they.

User ID

The only printer Ive ever owned ... dot matrix, about mid 1990s. Mine printed one character at a time. Always wanted one of those reeeeeally wide news room printers that print a whole line at a time.

13 Loc: I am only responsible to what I say..not what

I had one in the mid-70's. Used a TRS computer back then.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

If you mean a printer that uses a dot matrix print head and cloth ribbon, yes, I had an ImageWriter I and an ImageWriter II, both early Apple printers designed for the Apple II and Mac. Output was 72 dpi (REAL dots). So the output was pretty crude, but it got the job done.

I have a printer stand (still in use for an Epson Eco-Tank) that I used with those. It has a shelf for a box of fan-fold 9.5x11" paper with sprocket holes on the side that were micro perforated for easy removal.

In the late 1990s and early to mid-2000s, I wrote a database solution in FileMaker Pro that managed greeting card production in a photo lab. We had a bunch of Epson dot-matrix printers we used for printing "piggyback" labels. Those were labels printed on a waxed carrier sheet, one on top of the other. The 9-pin Epson printer struck the top label, and the impact would pressure-print a second label underneath the first. You printed two labels with one pass... We used those for labeling film negative mounting cards and negative glassines and shipping boxes. We had enough volume we wore out at least a dozen of those printers over the five years we ran the program.

chrisg-optical Loc: New York, NY

back in the 80s....noisy as hell....laser printers then spoiled me.

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

Government offices and stores here use dot matrix printers - and sometimes, the image is so faint you can't read it!

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

Mikeazz Loc: I live in Northport, NY

The Lumber yard near me still uses one !

cdayton

In 1959-60 I worked on programming (hole to hole wires) an IBM 1403 to print military reports on sprocket-driven, fan-folded paper. Later, in academic life, I had a personal DEC LA36 (pix) along with a CRT monitor to interact with various university computers (e.g., IBM 360). Around 1980 I acquired an Apple II and used an Epson MX80 with sprocket-drive.