Obsolete Dot Matrix Printer

Developed in the 1970s, the dot matrix printer delivered low-quality printouts for nearly two whole decades before inkjet printers offered an alternative that was slightly less hard on the eyes. The dot matrix printer will be remembered for its frequent paper jams; for its slow, noisy operation; and for the thin strips of perforated paper that you had to tear (carefully, so you didn’t end up with a document that looked as though it had come too close to a paper shredder) off the left and right sides of a printout once their work of keeping the paper properly aligned in the printer was done.