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I'm quite well aware that dot-matrix printers are still "alive and well" - that would seem evident from the fact that you can buy one new on eBay. |
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Saying that they're still is use, however, is a different matter from saying that they're in the kind of common, widespread, household use that they were 20+ years ago. |
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I had no doubt there would be *some* users of dot-matrix printers on this list, but they're not the solution most of is are reaching for when we want to print out our driving directions or tickets we reserved. |
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I look forward to your further illuminating comments on the actual question originally asked by Nilesh. |
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Stroller. |
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On 13 August 2011, at 09:11, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> Just want to inform that dot-matrix printers are still alive and well; |
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> my office has 3 heavy duty dot-matrix printers for printing carbonized |
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> tax receipts for our clients. And another medium duty one for printing |
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> our carbonized salary slips ;) |
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> Alas, the program used to print the tax receipts and salary slips are |
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> custom windoze apps, so I can't be sure how they will work with Linux |
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> boxen. |
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>> I doubt if there's many people on this list using dot-matrix printers, let |
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>> alone anyone using that particular model. |
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