Comment by aidenn0
3 days ago
I replaced my Okidata ML92 with a Fujitsu DL-3800 and got a huge bump in quality when printing from Word 2.0 on Windows. The only downside was that if I finished a paper after about 10pm I had to wait until morning to print or I would wake the whole house up.
The 24 needles of my Epson LQ-400 were loud enough to be heard when I rode my bicycle along the street past the property. Convenient to know when a print job finished[1] but basically made the house inhabitable for the time.
[1] I was going to write "or failed" but I could not remember it ever did. The continuous paper with the tractor feed was quite reliable.
The worst for me were those budget 'one hammer' printers with a revolving bar of single lines where the dots would appear. Those really made a racket.
All of these were handily outdone by chainprinters in the datacenter but those were in a soundproofed box.