[Centronics belt-grabbing printer]
> Is that the same screwball printer that has a metal platen spinning behind > the paper with horizontal raised lines on > it, and a single vertical striker in the printhead that strikes at the moment > when the platen and striker intersect at > the desired X/Y location of the dot to be printed? I've considered buying one > just to hear what it sounds like. No. That sounds like a Seikosha (?spel) Unihammer printer. Radio Shack sold it as the DMP110, I think Amstrad and Commodore sold them too (probably with different firmware). From what I remember (I have a DMP110, but haven't used it for many years) they produce a fairly high-pitched buzz. Then of course there is the Olivetti sparkjet printer. A really crazy thing that blasts solid toner from a rod of same by producing a spark from said rod to a fixed electrode. The toner doesn't all end up on the electrode, some goes on the paper. Or at least that#s the idea. Setting one up is an interesting job (I turned a pointed pin to make things a little easier) and the quality is non-existant even when it is working properly. -tony
