If you look behind any airport counter, you’ll see these printers—maybe even an old Epson 80—clacking away and spewing out reams of ancient dot matrix paper. Some of it comes off as a long roll, like ...

Paper neither too thick nor thin, with a thickness of 65 micrometres or 65 millionths of a metre, was the most lethal – namely newspaper and dot matrix paper.

Inside a dot matrix cartridge is a fabric ribbon similar to the one that might once have been found on a typewriter. It’s not on a roll but folded into the space, and it’s drawn through by a ...

Dot matrix paper is as dangerous as it is outdated. In a study entitled Competition between slicing and buckling, which underlies the erratic nature of paper cuts, physicists have determined the ...

I’ve wanted to make my own Twitter ticker for a little while now, so I’m definitely going to be asking my parents for their old dot matrix printer and the box of paper they have stashed somewhere.