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Old 5th August 2008
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and output was to an infernal dot matrix printer. God those things were awful.
I have a dot matrix printer, it's a Philips from 1984 (I was born in 1985, so it's older than I am), and it works like a charm.
It's reliable, cheap, reliable, simple, and did I mention reliable?

I always have to smile when I see people messing around with cups, a2ps and who knows what else, to print I just use:
# cat file.txt > /dev/lpt0

And the best part is, it will always print, unlike those inkjet printers from HP, Canon, etc., which are notoriously unreliable, break down fast, and use expensive cartridges.

Ok, it's not perfect, and (a good) laser printer is better, but dot matrix printers are pretty good too, and much, MUCH better than inkjet printers.
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