captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoGetting my daily news from a dot matrix printeraschmelyun.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down18
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minus-squarehotspur@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoMan, I wonder if it’s challenging to source a steady supply of paper for that thing…
minus-squareHejMedDig@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month 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-squarehotspur@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month 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.
minus-squareatrielienz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYeah. Airlines still use it for log books and reports.
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/
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.
Yeah. Airlines still use it for log books and reports.
And ink?
*ribbons
Haha yeah also that.