For as long as there have been personal computers, computer enthusiasts have been told that when it comes to printers, they can’t have their cake and eat it too. Either you used a dot matrix … ...

Most dot-matrix impact printers use a tractor feed mechanism. Tractor feeds use wheels with sprockets that fit into strips with holes that are attached to the side of a regular size piece of paper.

Fans of 80s-era computer printing technology are few and far between, but Apple’s ImageWriter II was a beast of a printer. This tractor feed dot-matrix printer is nigh-indestructible. The pri… ...

Early desktop printers were horrible. For the price of thousands of dollars one got lo-res dot matrix printouts on paper that had tractor-feed holes punched into the margins. It wasn't pretty, but ...

Fans of 80s-era computer printing technology are few and far between, but Apple’s ImageWriter II was a beast of a printer. This tractor feed dot-matrix printer is nigh-indestructible.

If you’re of a certain age and certain technical predilection you’ll remember tractor-feed printers.These printers had little sprocketed wheels that pulled long rolls of paper through ...