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Re: Yet Another torso sticker question
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Fri, 25 May 2001 20:39:57 GMT
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Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
He probably did. I don't know that there are very many printers at all
today which aren't dot matrix printers. My HP 660Cse certainly is. My TI

I don't think so. Only the ones with the little moving pins which hit the
paper are called "dot matrix", even if the other ones do end up putting a
matrix dots on the page. See:

<http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?dot+matrix+printer>
<http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?non-impact+printer>

(The "dot-matrix" doesn't refer to the image, but rather to the print head.)




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  Re: Yet Another torso sticker question
 
(...) Actually, I have a Lexmark Z3, and while this may not be a BONAFIDE dot matirx, the inkjet process is still close enough to dot matrix to suck just as much! Lol -Catch You Cats Later! -The Rascal King (24 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) He probably did. I don't know that there are very many printers at all today which aren't dot matrix printers. My HP 660Cse certainly is. My TI Microlaser certainly was. Of course not very many people today use printers which put the dots on (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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