Originally Posted by
buzzpat
Amen to that! For all equipment categories. How much money are we throwing down the Jepp waste basket twice a month? Seems pretty antiquated to me. And, here's a thought, where are we still finding and buying dot matrix printers?? Sheesh.
Actually, dot matrix printers are very cost efficient. You can use REALLY, REALLY cheap paper (IE newsprint) in them (which would typically jam a laser printer), they use a $0.49 ribbon instead of a $49.95 toner cartridge.
Lots of places still have a use for DM,and that's why they're still produced. Impact printers are the only ones that can do multi-part forms.
Newer isn't always better.
Nu