In article ,
"Bob Eager" writes:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:31:00 UTC, Tim Lamb
wrote:

I have been looking for a cheap printer to replace the gummed up inkjet
my wife used to use before we bought her a laptop. I now get irregular
e-mails requesting that such and such letter/recipe/birth/marriage/death
etc. attachment should be printed on the office m/c.

I don't leave my PC switched on so networking won't work and she works
at the other end of the house so picking up copy is inconvenient.

I confidently expected dot matrix printers to be dirt cheap by now and
half promised one as a birthday pressie. 150ukp they must be joking!

To be expected. They are now a low volume, specialist market (used only
when one wants multipart output, etc.)

I still have a Dataproducts B600 lineprinter, which I used to use
for software development at home. It's a band printer which does
600 lines/minute, and mine is in an accoustic case just like:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dataproducts-FP2...QQcmdZViewItem
(That's actually a faster 1000-2000 lines/minute version, although
it looks pretty identical.)

Hardly ever use it anymore, but not plucked up the courage to
actually get rid of it yet. In terms of service life, mine is
effectively brand new, as it hasn't even had 10 boxes of paper
through it during its life, which is what it would expect to
get through in 1 - 2 days of normal use.

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Andrew Gabriel
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