captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoGetting my daily news from a dot matrix printeraschmelyun.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down18cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up175arrow-down1external-linkGetting my daily news from a dot matrix printeraschmelyun.comcaptainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square23fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarehotspur@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoMan, I wonder if it’s challenging to source a steady supply of paper for that thing…
minus-squareHejMedDig@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoApparently not… Is it somehow still widely used. It’s the most likely paper to give you paper cuts though https://physicsworld.com/a/researchers-cut-to-the-chase-on-the-physics-of-paper-cuts/
minus-squareatrielienz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYeah. Airlines still use it for log books and reports.
minus-squarehotspur@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWild would never have guessed. Maybe because it’s possible for it to print as a continuous sheet, and I guess it comes in big rolls, etc.
Man, I wonder if it’s challenging to source a steady supply of paper for that thing…
Apparently not… Is it somehow still widely used. It’s the most likely paper to give you paper cuts though https://physicsworld.com/a/researchers-cut-to-the-chase-on-the-physics-of-paper-cuts/
Yeah. Airlines still use it for log books and reports.
Wild would never have guessed. Maybe because it’s possible for it to print as a continuous sheet, and I guess it comes in big rolls, etc.
And ink?
*ribbons
Haha yeah also that.