For a five-year-old future Hackaday scribe, there could be no greater day than that on which a Dymo label maker appeared in the house. With its spinny daisy-wheel to choose a character and its squeezy ...

The PIATI_AIT dot-matrix decoder is designed to read stationary or slow-moving dot-matrix identification labels at angles ±30° from perpendicular. With a 640 x 480-pixel CCD, eight white LEDs, and ...

Dot matrix printers, also known as impact matrix devices, are an older kind of printer that relies on an ink-soaked ribbon similar to that used in a typewriter. These devices were the most common ...

The LA36 was the first widely successful dot matrix printer and made printing faster and more efficient during an age when paper ruled the office world. Given that so many documents can now be stored ...