Dot matrix printer in action

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Published 2013-06-27
A 9-pin dot matrix printer (Oki Microline 321) printing out a test page on a low quality setting. This is a farly large (and heavy) A3 format capable printer. Please comment, rate and subscribe!

All Comments (21)
  • @catcubus
    Hearing it in action is giving me flashbacks of being back in elementary school where the coolest day of the week was being in the computer lab and listening to these printers in action. Good stuff.
  • @LikaLaruku
    Aaah, the high pitched screech of childhood.....
  • @tpmiranda
    Customer: "So, how fast does this bad boy print?" Seller: "No."
  • @rijden-nu
    Man, I really needed that. I feel like I'm 12 again, listening to my mother print her endless meeting notes for the next day in the middle of the night.
  • @samverve
    Watching this makes me wish I still had my old dot matrix. Printing my homework at 1.00am didn't always go down well! :-(
  • @LonelyAutomata
    Can't believe I miss this stuff. We had a few of these mothballed at the storage room on my first job, and they came out once per year to print a massive report.
  • @derrick7648
    I had to look this up because as I'm watching my 3D printer create an entire sculpture with nothing but a little fan noise I am astounded how far printing has come in my relatively short life.
  • @LaserGryph
    Johnson! I told you I wanted those spreadsheets in to me by noon!
  • @miai.728
    In the early 90s, we were one of the very few families with a computer (packard bell) and we had a dot matrix printer. I liked the sound and would print out my name in jumbo sized letters with hearts.
  • @krisr5228
    Still got these in my workplace for printing invoices. Absolutely love it.
  • @Maharddhika
    Thank you for this video! I'm studying for A+ and I needed to see what an Professor Messer meant when he said these things were noisy
  • @Reycied
    Ah, the 80's / 90's. When I would beg my grandpa to let me write and print out my terrible childhood stories on his computer, then bounce eagerly by the printer as it spooled out my ideas. Thanks for the nostalgia.
  • @CastToVoid
    I can smell the room our dot matrix printer was in when hearing the sounds. Thanks for sharing
  • @brentfisher902
    The good thing about these printers aside from printing on carbon copy papers is that when the ink runs out it doesn't just up an quit all at once like an inkjet printer, instead the print gradually gets lighter and lighter.
  • @adamadkins3211
    Loved the paper for these. I'd tear off the dot strip sides, fold them over one another, and make an accordion
  • Listening this makes me rememeber the days when I used to go my father's office