This is a retro printers in my collection (part 2)

This is a retro printers in my collection (part 3)

I got this printer because this type was the one I used when I was 8.
It's slow, noisy, heavy and the print quality is bad but I loved this printer when I was a kid, that screeching noise has a sentimental value to me now.
The ribbon costs like $3 and still widely available.
It doesn't fit any of my shelves so I'm lucky I'm not into collecting old printers.

Not retro, but somewhat. I have an Epson FX-890 dot matrix tractor feed printer that is recently manufactured. It will interface with everything from my Amiga and 8088 up through Windows 10.

Corvair that's a lot of printers!
Do you have them permanently setup and attached to PC's or do they only come out for special occasions.

I'd like a dot matrix of some sort and/or something like a HP LaserJet 4 but don't have the space.

very nice pics!

I can't believe I'm starting to feel nostalgic for old printers!

My printers don't attached to permanet rig and come out for spesial occasions only, firstly for my friends. And i planning to move my collection to display in a retro tech museum.
Who else has colour matrix printers? This machines used up to mid 90s, but Epson recently released very interesting DLQ-3500 II, not only than colour matrix printer, first matrix printer with colour display 😀. This means to colour matrix printer, truly ancient technology, remains in demand.

The Epson LQ were daisy wheel and LX were dot matrix, IIRC.

I think I had one of each many years ago, but no longer remember the models.

I have an Epson LQ-850 and HP Deskjet 842C which I use for printing from retro machines, and an HP Color Laserjet 4500 which I use for both modern & retro printing from network

I'll see if I can post pics later

Errius wrote on 2021-03-02, 20:11:

The Epson LQ were daisy wheel and LX were dot matrix, IIRC.

I think I had one of each many years ago, but no longer remember the models.

All Epson impact printers is a typical dot-matrix (needle, SIDM) printers. LQ/DLQ/PLQ series - 24 pin, LX/FX/DFX - 9 pin. Modern FX has 18 (2*9) pin, DFX also x*9 pin, basically is a 9 pin technology with multipied 9 pin arrays for speed.
Letterpress/typewriter-like fixed letters printer and daisy wheel in particular, provides best quality among impact technology, true Letter Quality class. But most LQ-class printers typically is a 24-pin SIDM machines, daisy wheel technology in comuter printer generally declined to late 80s.
Some daisywheel printers able to graphic print through "dot" sign. Probably this actually single-needle print was very-very slow. The sign of "graphical" capability of daisywheel printer is a metal insert in "dot" sign. Just my TEC F10-40 has metal dot sign and needs to check his graphical capabilities.

New Epson LX-300+II Colour with cut sheet feeder on my work 😀

This will have to do as a placekeeper/reminder until my PC hoard has all been undug and I've done the wheat from the chaff and got to the printers....
What I think I have:
One wide carriage 24 pin Dot Matrix, grabbed it as a freebie in the noughties, never ran it, I wanna say it's a Panasonic.. not sure, might turn out to be my sole DMP there might be another around. I did have a mental note to grab one DMP of the old classics variety like a real FX-80 or a Star LC-10 or something, but nothing turned up yet.
Bubble jets, need winnowing, I have several old Canons BJ110, BJ200, BJC240 or something like that. Wanna get one of those fixed up that uses the BJ-5 cart that are cheap and infinitely refillable. Also have a HP Deskjet 500 or something close to that, one of the halo inkjets of early/mid 90s. Miiight think of getting that going, large footprint for an inkjet though. Piles of epson trashjets, the free with PC kind that take an $80 cart to find out they don't work, or if they do, piss away all the yellow watermarking your prints then complain they can't print B/W with 80% of your black left.... I should bust them up for components.
Laserprinters, LaserJet II and IIID to get going with spare trays and cartridges... the DTP monster in early 90s. Definitely gonna keep one or both of those and set them up, they also take generic text output and postscript, so can get them to print from anything.

Would be cool to have them all set up in one of those print center stands that offices had back in 90s, lower shelf with a fanfold basket under for a fast dot matrix, shelves above for your laser and maybe color inkjet. Well "all" meaning 3. Prolly have to run a pentium box with NT 3.5 as a print server or something. Though I've got an Axis ethernet print server box doohickey.

Anyways, not done "curating" the printer selection yet. "Modern" requirements get filled by a LaserJet 13xx from the noughties, that takes $20 per 10,000 print toner.

Epson LQ-400 on my work, medical lab. Circa late 80s, wery useful and simply printer for equipment, with excellent print quality.

Can't show it as it's stored. I have Epson LQ-100.

Had the one back in the 90s and used it quite a lot for school work. I have it just to complete the setup I used to have. It still works fine but there is no real use for it now.

I have an original Apple Imagewriter, and an HP Laserjet II in my storage unit. Those are probably my two oldest printers. I don't really collect those. If I find one that looks really, REALLY old when I'm dumpster diving, I might decide to save it, or I might not. I don't go out of my way for them, like looking to buy them on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace, or anything like that.

Do boxes count?

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New workplace finding: Facit E445, rebadged Citizen Swift 9, seemly.
Note the funny Citizen's familiar Command-Vue III mechanical menu user interface.
This printer is color-capable with optional Epson LX-300 like colour kit.