I recently came across a pretty cheap classic Epson fx-1050 printer that I decided to get. It works fine, and is only in need of some cleaning. It is a dot matrix impact printer, but at the same time it is very wide. So wide one could probably feed a3 paper in landscape format.
Every time I saw a dot matrix printer being used it was to print invoices/warehouse orders etc. on tractor fed triplicate copy paper. I often saw wide printers like my Epson fx-1050, but they were always set to take in standard tractor fed paper (here in EU this is slightly wider than A4).
This made me think, was the extra width just a gimmick manufacturer implemented to justify higher cost and no one ever used it? Or is there a genuine use for 65cm wide dot matrix impact printers? If so, what was that use?
Every time I saw a dot matrix printer being used it was to print invoices/warehouse orders etc. on tractor fed triplicate copy paper. I often saw wide printers like my Epson fx-1050, but they were always set to take in standard tractor fed paper (here in EU this is slightly wider than A4).
This made me think, was the extra width just a gimmick manufacturer implemented to justify higher cost and no one ever used it? Or is there a genuine use for 65cm wide dot matrix impact printers? If so, what was that use?