Awesome video! You made me want to go out and buy a dot matrix for all the reasons you discussed. They are a bit pricier than the average consumer inkjet, but all of the hardware is built into the printer itself, and not ink cartridges (i.e. I could buy 4-5 ink ribbons for a dot matrix for the price of a single inkjet cartridge). What kind of maintenance have you done to it over the years OP?
I have a 1989 Memorex Tlex 1201 Dot Matrix Printer, but I need a USB to Printer Port (not the 16-18-pin cnnection, but they make the ones that you can connect Dot Matrix Printers, or other printers that have the Printer Parallel Port connection. watch?v=5Lnqv6eadDs is the video. Sorry for the bad quality... My cell phone has 1.3 Mega Pixles.
Were you printing from Windows? That slows dot matrix printers down a LOT because it prints everything as hi-res graphics. Try printing from DOS EDIT -- it will got much, much faster because DOS will send it to the printer as plain text.
I remember aswell these kind of printers at school, But we got an color printer. I remember when the teachers got mad because we printed big color pictures on a A4 paper format. It took about 20-30 minutes.
i love those printers, i used to have a star lc 10 colour and it was great for school assignments and stuff. they dont build printers liek they used to!
It died a few years ago, after a couple struggling years. It would lock up during a print and just make a loud beep. Finally it gave up and did the long beep upon power on. Had to toss it, which sucked, because it had a print quality of a laser jet, but the reliability of a dot matrix.
This printer in the video is a 9 pin, running on an Epson RX-80 driver (as recommended by Panasonic.)
my lc10 colour had to be chucked because the clip thing that held the cartridge up when it changed colour had broken, a simple repair now but when i was 11/12 seemed impossible!
My Dreamcast is also right next to my printer.
Th3James 1 month ago
What brand and model
Wavedude21101 1 month ago
Oldies but goodies!
pannoni1 3 months ago
forget about laser and inkjet printers, dot matrix printers rule forever as work horses!
hypernuclearbomber 3 months ago
Awesome video! You made me want to go out and buy a dot matrix for all the reasons you discussed. They are a bit pricier than the average consumer inkjet, but all of the hardware is built into the printer itself, and not ink cartridges (i.e. I could buy 4-5 ink ribbons for a dot matrix for the price of a single inkjet cartridge). What kind of maintenance have you done to it over the years OP?
blasticuffs 4 months ago
I have this exact printer :)
dancraggs 5 months ago
this is my kind of printer.
er10b 5 months ago
Nice Dreamcast :P
6253amanda 6 months ago
lol i still have a star NX1000 dotmatrix. not really quiet but prints awesome
allaboutnostalgia 1 year ago
It smells like my cat just died in the litter box... somebody help, I need like a glade candle or something...
crywolfe210 1 year ago
The head of my MPS-1200 just started to go. A couple of the pins on the bottom won't hit the platten anymore. Sucks
16mmDJ 1 year ago
lol your commentary for the printer is hilarious!!
nqkin 1 year ago 5
cool
Dopesmoker42020 2 years ago
These hings are great, they last way longer than today's printers, and Ink lasts 10,000 times longer.
Dms12444 2 years ago
I love that sound...
MicrosoftWindowsGuy 3 years ago 14
I have a 1989 Memorex Tlex 1201 Dot Matrix Printer, but I need a USB to Printer Port (not the 16-18-pin cnnection, but they make the ones that you can connect Dot Matrix Printers, or other printers that have the Printer Parallel Port connection. watch?v=5Lnqv6eadDs is the video. Sorry for the bad quality... My cell phone has 1.3 Mega Pixles.
WinVistaUser2 3 years ago
can you make any more videos using this printer? this is pretty helpful! lol
whizkid05 3 years ago
Were you printing from Windows? That slows dot matrix printers down a LOT because it prints everything as hi-res graphics. Try printing from DOS EDIT -- it will got much, much faster because DOS will send it to the printer as plain text.
vwestlife 3 years ago
I'm aware of Windows sending as rasters..
But it's connected to a 2003 Enterprise domain controller... It has to be this way.
hakemon 3 years ago
i remember these printers used the long folded sheets of paper with holes on the side.
allboutk 3 years ago
I remember aswell these kind of printers at school, But we got an color printer. I remember when the teachers got mad because we printed big color pictures on a A4 paper format. It took about 20-30 minutes.
randomforum 3 years ago
i love those printers, i used to have a star lc 10 colour and it was great for school assignments and stuff. they dont build printers liek they used to!
Sephy69 3 years ago
Oh oh! I used to have a Star 24-pin model.
It died a few years ago, after a couple struggling years. It would lock up during a print and just make a loud beep. Finally it gave up and did the long beep upon power on. Had to toss it, which sucked, because it had a print quality of a laser jet, but the reliability of a dot matrix.
This printer in the video is a 9 pin, running on an Epson RX-80 driver (as recommended by Panasonic.)
hakemon 3 years ago
my lc10 colour had to be chucked because the clip thing that held the cartridge up when it changed colour had broken, a simple repair now but when i was 11/12 seemed impossible!
Sephy69 3 years ago