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Epson MX-80 Fonts

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Re: Epson MX-80 Fonts

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Post by wiredfool »

mark-r wrote: post #70
wiredfool wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My recollection is that the dots were round on my dot matrix. But it also used a typewriter ribbon, so there was a bit of texture from that.

Good point, the dots were produced by pins that were round. What I meant to say was that the spacing might have been different in the two directions.

Yes, I’m sure they would be. Especially since the same font would have been used for normal width (10 characters per inch) and compressed (17 cpi).

Re: Epson MX-80 Fonts

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Post by int_19h »

fuzzfactor wrote: post #2

A lot of people never saw anything different come out of these printers. These are built-in fonts available so the simplest devices/OS like DOS can directly print per-character (ASCII) rather than per-pixel or per-dot. You send it the signal to print an upper case letter for instance, it responds and prints the upper case letter about like a daisy-wheel printer would have done. No dots involved in the communication b…

8-dot matrix printers were still in heavy use at the time Win95 came out, and for some time afterwards. For good reasons: they were cheap, and you really don't need anything more than that to print out invoices and the like, which is what most businesses need a printer for.
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