At the time, such printers were plentiful and cheap. But by the late 1990s dot matrix printers were largely superseded by the technologically superior laser and ink jet printers.

At their best they could deliver a surprising level of quality, but their sound once heard is not forgotten, because it was extremely LOUD. [Wpqrek] bought an old dot-matrix printer, a Commodore ...

We don’t think you can get any more awesome than this Dot Matrix Printer that can play music! The hack makes use of an old 24-pin dot matrix printer, which is now a MIDI compatible sound generator.

This Canadian aggregation’s previous effort had something to do with converting a Montreal grain silo into “an instrument of sound.” Hence, the band has purportedly qualified itself as a hi-tech ...

Commentator Daniel Ferri, a sixth-grade teacher in Chicago says his students discovered a kind of Brazilian dance-rhythm in the sound of the dot-matrix printer. He calls it the techno-sambo.

Young Rival bassist and music video conceptual mind John Smith is taking you through the (many) steps of turning dot matrix printing into astounding animations.

The newer printers have more pins to build characters with finer resolution. The Epson LQ-800 uses 24 pins, like many of the new “letter- quality” dot matrix printers.

A set of dot matrix printers will make beautiful music together, perhaps for the last time For the first time in 10 years, a Canadian arts duo plans to perform a symphony using only obsolete dot ...