Old pin type printer

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hellgap

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I need suggestions on where to find a old pin type printer 27 pin is the best from what ive been told and then i can use front page to create my etching design.
 
Check Goodwill or the local charity thrift store. People dump off their old computer stuff there and it is available for a couple of bucks.

Also, check into some of the label printers. A few may still run off pin printing heads.

A call to a local computer repair shop may turn up something, too.
Stacy
 
I assume you're talking about a dot matrix printer. Check ebay. I always has excellent experiences with Okidata microline printers (the 590/591 is the good 24 pin version). Problem is that for the most part you're still going to pay a decent price for one. Dot matrix printers just refuse to die in the marketplace because if you're printing multipart forms on NCR paper, you need to have an impact printer.

-d
 
I always had good luck with Panasonic KX-P11xx series dot matrix printers. Back when you could still buy dot matrix paper and ribons these were the best printers because their were parts available everywhere and they were so common that folks would just give them away.

I also had good luck with HP ThinkJet dot matrix printers, but I don't know if these would work as well for your application.

As Deker said, there are many businesses that must have dot matrix printers, Okidata leads that market. They usually get good money for them, but the Okidata printers today are just as unstoppable as they were 20 years ago.

I also agree that ebay is the way to go, unless you have a university surplus action near you. You can often pick up equipment like that for fairly cheap, we have one near here at NC State, I've seen a lot of good stuff culled out of there over the years.
 
I just got rid of a 20 year old okidata microline... that still worked fine >_< those things are indestructable.
 
AcridSaint said:
I also had good luck with HP ThinkJet dot matrix printers, but I don't know if these would work as well for your application.
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ThinkJets aren't dot matrix, they just look that way because inkjet technology at the time was so bad :)

-d
 
Yeah, they seemed awfully quiet for what they did, but they still loaded the same as the ribon style cartridge and the same paper :P It's been a long time since I used one :eek:
 
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