Dot Matrix Printer

Another lovely day descends into the depths of the office, illuminated not by the sun or the light of intellect, but by seven large fluorescent lights hanging above your head like satan's jail-keepers monitoring your every emasculated move. You look down at the ancient printer, most likely the last one still in use on planet earth, and wonder if the symphony of scrapes and scratches that wail out from its plastic interior will ever end. You begin to hope that they won't, lest the silence drive you over the edge. A dot matrix printer or impact matrix printer is a type of computer printer with a print head that runs back and forth, or in an up and down motion, on the page and prints by impact, striking an ink-soaked cloth ribbon against the paper, much like the print mechanism on a typewriter. Each dot is produced by a tiny metal rod, also called a "wire" or "pin", which is driven forward by the power of a tiny electromagnet or solenoid, either directly or through small levers (pawls). These machines can be highly durable. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=117647