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Also delivered were two wide-format dot matrix tractor feed printers!

These things are in rough shape: the foam padding is crumbling to dust, there's metal plating flaking off the rods, and they're just generally full of dust and debris and undoubtedly spider eggs. My relative insists that they work, though. When pressed, they explained that they worked perfectly thirty or forty years ago.

[Edit: forgot to add the pictures.]

Specifications for the Epson LX-80 dot matrix printer from its manual. In 1984 these were fairly typical for 9 pin printers, though things like Near Letter Quality mode were less common (a mode that increased the effective resolution of each character: normal mode characters had to fit in a 8x9 grid, while NLQ characters had a denser 12x18 grid for the same size - this allowed 9 pin printers to stay relevant a bit longer though at the cost of printing speed).

Frozen Menagerie

This piece of artwork combines several styles I work in: glitch art, creepypasta, the dot matrix style, and psychedelic effects created by color inversion. I really like the way it came out.

Oh yeah, and due to subpixel precision, it kinda looks like shit if not fully zoomed in.

Figure Glitch Revamped

Made this with a combination of databending, color separation, edge detect, and redoing the image in a dot matrix style. I came up with a method to redraw an image as a bunch of tiny circles, so it looks like an old-school CRT monitor.

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