Epson EXP 1000

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I have an Epson EXP 1000 nine pin dot matrix printer. It is a great old
workhorse but taking up space. Can anyone tell me if there is a market for
them or not.
Ben.
 
The main use for dot matrix printers these days is in point of sales
operations and certain multiple document situations where copies of the
same document are required, so carbonless paper might be used to make
several copies at once.

However, many applications are either using thermal printers or even
fast laser printers, which can eliminate the need for pre-printed forms,
and careful registration of the text.

Most POS dot matrix/impact printers today are 24 or more pin and quite
fast, so no, there isn't a great deal of demand for early dot matrix
printers. I agree they are built to run forever, too bad no one needs
them anymore!

Art
 
Arthur Entlich said:
The main use for dot matrix printers these days is in point of sales
operations and certain multiple document situations where copies of the
same document are required, so carbonless paper might be used to make
several copies at once.

However, many applications are either using thermal printers or even fast
laser printers, which can eliminate the need for pre-printed forms, and
careful registration of the text.

Most POS dot matrix/impact printers today are 24 or more pin and quite
fast, so no, there isn't a great deal of demand for early dot matrix
printers. I agree they are built to run forever, too bad no one needs
them anymore!

Art
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Now that software comes without printed manuals I often use the dot matrix
to print out the PDF's.
Ben.
 
Most POS dot matrix/impact printers today are 24 or more pin and quite
fast, so no, there isn't a great deal of demand for early dot matrix
printers.
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I'm not sure if 24pins are the most popular for POS systems. If we're
talking receipt printers 9 pin is still used. In fact I rarely see 24
pin sub 4 inch printers. You typicaly don't need "near letter quality"
for a receipt, and 24 pins is overkill.

If we're talking letter sized printers for POS systems, among the most
popular is the OKI 320. Still sold and costs a pretty penny. The
last time I checked out blockbuster they had a bank of new OKI 320s.

The only people I can think of that would be likely to want an old dot
matrix would be Auto part stores, Video stores, but even those places
are switching to lasers that support Epson emulation. But I agree
demand is very low for any dot matrix.
 
Probably a good use if you don't have a laser printer and the manual is
just text. However, what do you do about images, which dot matrix
printers tend to do a poor job with?

Art
 
Yes, I was referring to full letter size printers more than the 4" wide
models used for basic receipts.

Art
 
Yes, I was referring to full letter size printers more than the 4" wide
models used for basic receipts.
Art
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That's the thing. The Oki 320 is a 9pin. So is the 420 and 520.
http://www.okidata.com/mkt/html/nf/SIDM.html

This is not to say Oki doesn't have 24pin models IIRC the x90 series
are 24 pins, but for the most part they cost more, and they are not
needed for POS systems. It's not like these are odd ducks that are not
currently in prodiction, many of these printers come with USB standard
Ethernet Optional.
 
Often the images are not too important. This week I used it to print out the
133 pages for Norton Ghost.
Ben.
 
Often the images are not too important. This week I used it to print out the
133 pages for Norton Ghost.
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There was a time I used a dotmatrix to print manuals. This was in the
age where manuals were just text and I would get frustrated when I
would leave the printer and the tractor feed would get stuck. What I
miss was onion skin tractor feed paper. I could print out hundrads of
pages and stuff my binders chucked full of manuals. The same style of
paper does not work too well in inkjets and tends to catch fire in
lasers, or at least in my laser. But I can see this as being a reason
to choose to use an impact printer with a tractor feed. For me speed
was an issue. The best I could hope for in a sub $300 impact printer
was 30 to 50 characters per second and dumping pure text to a laser was
printed pretty close to the advertised speed of pages per minute. When
talking fonts and graphics... well the dot matrix could do it just take
an age.
 
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