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.