:awesome:matrix

[aboomoosab]

sounds like dubstep

[vicsartv]

Am impressed you made it work. What OS?

[The444444Dude]

Can you print one in colour? :P

[hypernuclearbomber]

the sound of nostalgia (turns on a Lx300, gsx 190, kp 1180i, and fx 1050 symphony start!)

[watcher206]

on 0:05 you can hear a kid in the background say,"oh-no!" after realizing that he was printing on a dot matrix printer.

[shoprat17]

i wanna get one of these, inkjets dont like me

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Internet memes on a Dot Matrix printer, now I've seen everything.

[wookiefable]

what no hold up of picture

[Tubetheweb]

@Quisty Awesome, thanks for bringing back happy memories. I haven't looked it up, but could you tell me how much would one in good condition cost these days and would the ink for it be difficult to purchase? Thanks.

[FuckingMirrors]

I think I have worked way back with a printer like this too :D

[Nighthawke70]

A 24 pin slugger, it was the flower of technology in it's day, a very desirable unit, second to the Epson line of printers. I had the 9 pin cousin to this one and it could blaze through multi-parts without issue and the text was crisp.

[tammyz10]

That's the haunting sound from my infant/junior school. I didn't even notice till watching this.

[elunicotomas]

i hated that sound

[leodurax]

Feel like a Office Man

[yvesyvezz]

that sound makes me feel like I'm the Office

[tallswede80]

@cjisme3 fuck is that?

[thecomputerman100]

kinda sounds like a barcode scanner when it was on the eyes

[nicolunacba]

Sounds like an Atari game

[themangodess]

i knew what you were printing by the first 15 seconds

[Batwariors13]

One word, AWESOME :D

[empy206]

i didn't realize how nerdy i was until i finished watching this.

[ongchorcool]

how can you plug the printer in to a 2010 computer

[Manimal347]

@ongchorcool

You can. My '08 motherboard has serial, parallel, plus two PS/2 ports and IDE. Hooray for legacy connection options.

[TahreyUK]

@ongchorcool USB to parallel (or serial) converter. Easy. So long as you can find drivers it's compatible with.

Or use a plug-in PCI parallel/serial board.

Or see if your motherboard has a COM port header on it even if it doesn't have an actual socket.

Or just use an older machine... for something like this I could probably even use a 1985-vintage machine; my old Atari with a DTP package that can read hi-rez clipart files (that Paintshop can save) or a 286 with an ISA RAM board + Win 3.1 + Write

[sprogdiklis]

OHHHHH NOOOO!~!

:D

[HeadlessPony]

I wish printers still sounded like this!!

[sijmenjan]

The awesomeness music...

[MrTailscool]

wow brings back old memories XD

[MOLRobocop]

Nice. Can you still find printer drivers for it?

[CapPicard]

I used to have that exact model printer over 15 years ago. That 24-pin printer has quite sharp graphics and text. The NLQ text is almost the same as LQ. You can still tell it's a dot-matrix, but sure beats a crappy 9-pin any day.

[lexichronicle2]

you need to have that setup at the bottom of the stairs, set off by a tripwire to print a copy each morning.... "ah.... another AWESOME morning!"

[vvtvtytvyvrtfcvrv]

: p

[pokamonmaster1997]

my dad is so mean i asked him for a printer and he got me one of thos

[idontcarewatuthink]

shooop da whooop

[DiskTwenty]

It prints with near laser printer quality and speed. I can't believe our human race used those printers for nearly 50 years... thank god for technology.

[Cam4cha]

@DiskTwenty

Well, before that you had to carve every page of a book painstakingly by hand in a block of wood, before you could even think of reproducing them and even before that, they just wrote the damn things.

I know one thing for sure, and that is that I wouldn't have come up with the idea to write a whole book for lack of a better method. I would probably have taken my chances and waited around 'til some clever fellow would come around and invent the press.

[gbnnn]

lol "Oh, no!" in the background after "it's the awesome matrix!"

[Bellwestern80]

I got a KX-P2023, needs a new ribbon but it'll keep going, and going, and going. Not as fast as modern ones, but 24-pins still sounds pretty flipping cool.

[slater231]

Ahaha brilliant.

[hammondeggs49]

Hah, that's a KXP-1123 - I had one of these heh. Guess nobody used the tinted piece of plastic that was supposed to cover the head!

[sgenius0]

I used to have the Panasonic KX-P1180 (quite similar to this one). We bought it in the early 90's... and is still working. Slow and poor graphic quality, but boy it is reliable... and the ink lasts forever.

[XxSTICH666xX]

Sounds like my Dreamcast.

[phreaksterman]

@XxSTICH666xX Mine sounds like it's dying, too. I still have another one I picked up at Goodwill though, so I'm set for a few years!

[RetroGamerr1991]

@phreaksterman No that's how they always sound.

[phreaksterman]

@RetroGamerr1991 Some are worse than others; mine sounds incredibly bad compared to the aforementioned Goodwill Dreamcast.

[err0neous]

i can almost smell the ink from here

[worldsocialismdotorg]

stay true to the classics looooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooo*takes in deep breath*ooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooooooooool

[pwnage97]

i tossed mine out :'(

[atlram1]

OMFG - thats a KXP24 or something like that right?! I had one!

[cookiect2003]

That sound takes me back

[savarg]

this is win lol

[VideyoJunkei]

oil can! oil can!

[cjracer1000]

i heard these printers clack a lot i dont hear any clacking!!!!

[PinkClosetNinja]

dude, i like the character that you printed out. whats it from?

[1992skyline]

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