J'ai réparé mon imprimante matricielle !
C'est une Star LC-10, elle imprimait un début de ligne et le chariot se bloquait avant que l'imprimante ne se mette en erreur.
J'ai vérifié l'alimentation, la commande du moteur du chariot, RAS.
Au final c'était un problème mécanique, j'ai graissé les éléments mobiles du chariot et j'ai fait tourner le ruban encreur dans sa cartouche avec une visseuse électrique, et ça m'a l'air bon maintenant !
Testé avec mon #Atari Mega STE et le traitement de texte Papyrus (et pas la bonne fonte!)
#dotmatrix #printer #retrocomputing

Specifications for the Epson LX-80 dot matrix printer from its manual. In 1984 these were fairly typical for 9 pin printers, though things like Near Letter Quality mode were less common (a mode that increased the effective resolution of each character: normal mode characters had to fit in a 8x9 grid, while NLQ characters had a denser 12x18 grid for the same size - this allowed 9 pin printers to stay relevant a bit longer though at the cost of printing speed).

Why buy boring white paper when you could have glorious dull pastels reminiscent of the wardrobe choices of Miami Vice? Also, look at that font! Perfect 80s vibes.

My banners are going to look totally rad.

#dotmatrix Porn for you #nerdsofmastodon. I get to print my first banner for 32nd year of #Intenet in #Turkey.
#retrocomputing #permacomputing #asciiart

Side by side view of my two Epson LX-80 dot matrix printers. The one on the right I got free at #VCFEast really needs a good cleaning before I'll start testing it.

Remember when computing-related books had fun stuff like DIP switch settings?

I got a decent C64 lot on eBay
Packed by the seller as typical retro items - no to little packing
The printer cover broke on the upper left corner. The Seller likely thought the original boxes would be enough It went from Central NY to Allentown, PA then Cincinnati, OH, and finally to Northern NY to me over 10 days The shipping box is so beaten up from the trip, I can't tell if it was new or old

#Commodore #C64 #Commodore64
#1541 #DotMatrix

https://photos.app.goo.gl/gS8vhRwFTYY9gGdb6

New font release: Norma; full name: Dorothy Norma; full full name: Dorothy Norma Matrix P Condensed.

A fantasy 13-pin dot matrix printer font based on the DIN 6776 / TGL 31034 lettering.

Available without payment from https://drj11.itch.io/norma-font

My body is getting ready for 2025 #Marchintosh #vintageapple #imagewriter #dotmatrix #globaltalk

Just bought a book from eBay that comes with a weird dongle. Looking forward to reading it, I'm sure it will be exciting.

H4xx0r5p4c3

Just something I made in GIMP. An edit of a databending of an edit of a photo.

My parents had one of these Compugraph photos taken of me, and my face was printed on a tote bag using a dot-matrix character printer. I had that tote bag for ages.

Actually, they printed the image (mirrored) onto an iron-on sheet, which was then manually ironed onto the bag.

RIBBONS! A box just arrived of new #Commodore MPS-1250 ribbons & the best part, they were under $3.10 a ribbon. That is a surprise being lately some ribbons are not even available anymore & others are $45+ a ribbon.
#Dotmatrix #Printer #Ribbon

Frozen Menagerie

This piece of artwork combines several styles I work in: glitch art, creepypasta, the dot matrix style, and psychedelic effects created by color inversion. I really like the way it came out.

Oh yeah, and due to subpixel precision, it kinda looks like shit if not fully zoomed in.

Figure Glitch Revamped

Made this with a combination of databending, color separation, edge detect, and redoing the image in a dot matrix style. I came up with a method to redraw an image as a bunch of tiny circles, so it looks like an old-school CRT monitor.

Need to pick up a dot matrix printer and paper to do this justice.