An early impact printer that combined band printer and dot matrix technologies. It used a revolving band, but dots were on the band instead of the actual characters. Bands with different dot sizes ...

The task seemed simple enough. Attach a grain of rice-sized microchip to the legs of the birds who call the Akron, Ohio Zoo's Aviary exhibit home. The birds already have metal bands that help identify ...

An impact printer that prints a line at a time. Printronix pioneered this technology in 1974. Line matrix and band printers are the surviving line printer technologies, but line matrix can print ...