What does dot matrix printer actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

A couple of weeks ago I remarked that a new crop of inexpensive ink jet printers has virtually driven dot matrix printers from the market.

If so, do you know if there are impact dot matrix printers, which work within Windows and can be shared like normal newer printers? What other otpions are there for sharing these printers? Are ...

Dot matrix printers, despite being mostly obsolete, have a somewhat vintage aesthetic that plenty of people still find desirable and recreate them in plenty of other ways as well, like this 3D ...

Technology has finally nudged printers to the point where you can get both graphics and high quality in the same printer. I’m referring to the new breed of 24-pin dot matrix printers that are ...

The noise of a dot matrix printer is probably as synonymous with 1980s computing as the modem handshake would become with the desktop experience a decade or more later. But unlike the computers ...

Some businesses still use dot matrix printers to generate invoices, forms and other documents. Unlike modern laser printers, a dot matrix printer has a single print head and an inked ribbon ...

Why do airlines still use dot matrix printers? “I’m so tired of those damn things,” one airline crew member told us.

At the time, such printers were plentiful and cheap. But by the late 1990s dot matrix printers were largely superseded by the technologically superior laser and ink jet printers.

Commentator Daniel Ferri, a sixth-grade teacher in Chicago says his students discovered a kind of Brazilian dance-rhythm in the sound of the dot-matrix printer. He calls it the techno-sambo.

Neo, the hero of “ The Matrix,” is sure he lives in 1999. He has a green-hued cathode-ray-tube computer screen and a dot-matrix printer. His city has working phone booths.