"A twenty-four pin dot matrix printer, the same type as the one used for the ransom demand."
If we go the cheaper route, we're going to upgrade to a 24-pin matrix printer.
An image drawn on, say, a Macintosh screen is stuck forever at 72dpi whether printed out on a matrix printer or an imagesetter.
Lasers run at 300 dots per inch, about four times better than a matrix printer.
At their best ink-jet printers can produce an output quality several times better than that of the average matrix printer.
Unlike the colour printing achieved from multi-ribbon matrix printers the results are really excellent.
After all, matrix printers were designed to handle typefaces for word processing, not desktop publishing.
Jones pressed a key to generate a copy on the adjacent matrix printer.
Office equipment such as matrix printers, fax machines, answering machines, and photocopiers are known examples.
We had matrix printers, and you had to tear the little perforated holes off either side of the printed page.