I'm quite well aware that dot-matrix printers are still "alive and well" - that would seem evident from the fact that you can buy one new on eBay.
Saying that they're still is use, however, is a different matter from saying that they're in the kind of common, widespread, household use that they were 20+ years ago. I had no doubt there would be *some* users of dot-matrix printers on this list, but they're not the solution most of is are reaching for when we want to print out our driving directions or tickets we reserved. I look forward to your further illuminating comments on the actual question originally asked by Nilesh. Stroller. On 13 August 2011, at 09:11, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Just want to inform that dot-matrix printers are still alive and well; > my office has 3 heavy duty dot-matrix printers for printing carbonized > tax receipts for our clients. And another medium duty one for printing > our carbonized salary slips ;) > > Alas, the program used to print the tax receipts and salary slips are > custom windoze apps, so I can't be sure how they will work with Linux > boxen. > >> I doubt if there's many people on this list using dot-matrix printers, let >> alone anyone using that particular model.
