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Feb 15, 2011 05:37 |  #1

It's the middle of the night here and I found myself reflecting on some time in the distant past when I was messing with a dot matrix printer.

I had to keep it in a separate room in my house because it was so noisy, but it was a blast because I could print my early digital images on it!

It must have been in the very early '90s...I dont remember when, because I went to work for HP back then and things were moving quickly in digital imaging -- we were pumping out the early inkjet printers and scanners and it became so cool to scan a photo and then print it out on an 8.5x11 page in full color!

So I'm a bit at a loss when I was printing with my dot matrix but it was a lot of fun!


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Feb 15, 2011 06:34 |  #2

Turning over rocks this morning??

I think my last DM was a 9 X 9 and that was like in 84. The images I was able to print was along the likes of news paper print, was great!




  
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Feb 15, 2011 09:52 |  #3

Yeah. And using Ghostscript to get the thing to print postscript out of Ventura Publisher :)


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