IT WORKS! Going Nuts with New Color Dot Matrix Printer Ink from the 90s
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2019
- Putting the Star Micronics NX-2420 color dot matrix printer through its paces. Nearly 30 years old and still going strong, at least with new old stock 4-color ink ribbon from Nu-Kote! Greetings hot dogs.
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You MUST have the Greetings hot-dog as your channel banner!
Everyone like this comment so He does this!!
Framing it with a woodgrain frame of course! :-)
Yes! Also at the start of his videos when he says "Greetings and welcome to an LGR thing..." he should have the banner in front of the camera. Haha
At least make it your Twitter banner
You should definitely use it on LGR Foods!
"I'm not gonna show the whole tractor feed setup"
*Proceeds to show entire sequence of tearing edges off*
That is quintessential LGR
It isn't LGR without retro fetishism. No offense. Clint knows who he is.
But it's SO satisfying to watch, and some of us are old enough to remember having to do that.
@@DiamondDustVIII I found it a little frustrating 😊 Whenever printing multiple fan-fold pages, I'd fold them back up before tearing off the edges. MUCH easier and quicker 😉
tbh i'd watch a whole 20-minute video of lgr tearing the edges off that paper. it's pure early 90s technology asmr.
1. Print dot matrix crab t-shirt image on regular paper
2. Scan printout
3. Print on transfer paper with inkjet
4. Profit!
3.5. ???
5. Get banned from redbubble
6. debt
If that Greetings Hotdog isn't framed and in the background of future videos, I'm gonna be disappointed.
We should memorialize this period of expectation by printing the Anticipation Burger
When Clint retires he should open a bar adorned with all of the shit he's collected over the years.
Bold of you to assume he retires.
Chris W
Call it the “terabyte tavern”
no
the channel banner
I'm watching a guy work on old dot matrix printers ..... and damned if I"m not having a good time!
The old times while I helped my father to print dozens of pages of tax information, or sometimes my homework or something silly made in Banner Maria. When you checked if the printer was working correctly just by hearing it :_)
"I consider this an absolute win. Look at this Banner."
*clever*
I understood that reference.
I'm not the only one who noticed that Avengers reference lol!
I don't get it. How's it an Avengers reference? I know Bruce Banner, so must be something I'm missing.
@@MartKencuda because he says "I consider this an absolute win" in the newest Avengers movie.
@@MartKencuda have you not seen the endgame memes?
I will not lie Clint. I want that cool crab picture on an actual t shirt...
I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED!
Id buy 2, dftba?
I second that motion
Third
Androyd09 i need it
I'd pay good money for a Cool Crab t-shirt that was printed in a dot matrix style.
I remember when that chess image looked so modern...
I greatly approve of the LGR morning startup sequence
Canyon.mid should be the official soundtrack for that sequence
As do I
That's why I like his other channel, LGR Foods.
@@Fabulaser Thank you for telling me about this! That channel is amazing
I agree, that was so satisfying to watch lol
**Seller** "Wait a second, somebody actually WANTS this junk? Guess I might as well just ship them the other one I have just to get rid of it."
I had that happen to me when buying 5.25" floppy drives on eBay.
or: "OMG this will probably expire and since noone else is buying it..."
@Kevin Prima I have a floppy rainbow (One of each color) from a local supermarket brand which I got for cents at a local second-hand store. was meaning to frame them, never got around to it.
10 floppys for $75? I'm glad I found a few packs at my local thrift.
I would actually use that printer if I had one that worked.
Very cheap to operate.
do I look like I know what a Jpeg is? i just want a picture of a god-dang hotdog.
If we're honest, an inkjet printer would have taken 40min to print that banner as well. 39 min of random noises followed by a 1 min print job.
And NONE of those noises would be as satisfying as the BRRRRRRRRRRRT of a good impact printer(or even a bad one).
and then it would stop three Times during it and say in cartridges not recognised and then have to do initialization again and have to do head cleanings over and over again (unless you made the smart choice to not use an epson)
And jamming 3 times because there were microns of dust in the same room as the machine. Then jamming again because someone down the block from you sneezed and one final jam because of the lunar phase.
With transfer paper, you'd have some additional monochrome ones at the same time!
Get a better printer
@12:50 the closed captions say 'printer prints printingly'
Made my day.
Is that what ol' Jack Burton says at times like these?
LGR is the reason I leave my subtitles on all the time now :)
What are closed captions? I only know captions and subtitles.
So basically closed captions are captions that can be turned off... And are designed for the deafth unlike subtitles which are meant to translate or help understanding accents
@@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 Thanks for clarification.
Oh man, my dad got pissed at me back in the day for printing the full size version of a city, it took up like 16 sheets of paper
Lauren S lmao
Ya, I remember getting in trouble for using the printer too... I had a super graphics jr on a commodore 64 for printing banners and it was so expensive to buy the printer + the centronics adapter + super graphics jr adapter that printing became a sin.
I 'purchased' the same printer they had in the technology classroom, so ink was 'cheap' for me
Techmoan is hiding in your cupboard!
HA! You noticed the Techmoan Muppet mug as well?
Flippin heck
I noticed that too!
Man, I love when you're excited about this stuff
The morning sequence was so rad. Nice work, LGR.
Yeah, he knows how to make a cup. That looks like some bomb coffee.
@@slickstretch6391 It did look excellent. I need to check LGR Foods to see if he's covered coffee over there.
Techmoan mug sighting!
I highly recommend this video by Basics With Babish. He uses the same coffee brewer. ua-cam.com/video/6yItCQB4V9A/v-deo.html I'm going to have to check out LGR foods. I didn't know that was a thing.
"Holy crap someone actually bought these old printer ribbons! They must be living waaaaaaaaay in the past!"
Or, "Holy crap someone actually bought these old printer ribbons! They must be a UA-camr."
@@Backroad_Junkie Yep, even more likely. x3
12:53 [printer prints printingly] That sound brings me memories :_)
Honestly my fav LGR video. The colour ribbon redemption, the nostalgia I don't share but that is so tangible, the coffee morning bit and COOL CRAB! Plus that dithering and the colours really ARE a good look
The wake up-coffee preparation-driving sequence was awesome.
Reminds me of Snatch :D
Seems like someone spilled Peter McKinnon over LGR channel.
Not that I mind...
Loved the Tech Moan mug
@@the_hamrat So glad that someone mentioned it.. saves me from doing it :P
Like LGR intro of old.
Tearing off the edges from tractor-feed printer paper and folding it into accordions was the early 90s version of the fidget spinner you can't prove me wrong
I was itching to get hold of them through the screen. Mine always ended up with a cool twist to them as they went. I'd totally forgotten them for 25 years until the first in this series.
Add the paper ninja star, bubble-wraps and telephone coiled cord to that list.
Fun fact: French car registration certificates DO still have those exact same tractor-feed edges by today.
(Except that of course they're printed on quite a thick paper, that is also secure against forgery just like banknotes)
Not excatly sure if they're printed using dot-matrix printers though...
Travis Lausch I was born in the 90’s and considered myself lucky to find these printers set up, and to do that was like winning a lottery, it’s the technology I missed before I ever even saw them in person, stories of dot matrix paper and the printers and the sounds was all I had before video and before finding anywhere still using these
@@aterack833 Since we're similar in age (I'm born in 98), and you find 90's machine in use as interesting, try to look up "floppotron" by Paweł Zadrożniak or MrSolidSnake745
Greetings hotdog banner. "Is that the foot long?" ... "And then some!"
And, for those of you who didn't have the captions on, you missed this gem: *[printer prints printingly]*
Love seeing this guy happy, he genuinely enjoys this stuff, and makes us love it too :) Truly one of the great tech channels.
The retro-futuristic soundtrack is totally on spot for this!
You might like to search for synthwave
Checkout Perburator
You gotta make official LGR "cool crab" Tshirts. Id totally pay for them .
I smell a new Patreon perk...
Or maybe that's just the printing.
Sadly I don't think he could do that due to copyright unless he could get the permission of the original artist somehow
I need the Cool Crab shirt to exist or I swear I'll shrivel up like a raisin.
This needs to happen asap.
@@Kenjis9965 maybe an artist who's a fan could volunteer to make something similar as an original work? Could even do a dithering effect through photoshop~
This channel, with it's innocent shenanigans and antics, is truly a gem in todays world.
5:35 = A E S T H E T I C. I had a feeling that the old standard vaporwave aesthetic didn't just exist out of thin air.
I want that Cool Crab image on a t-shirt so bad!!
A million dollar idea for merchandise.
I would absolutely buy that shirt in a heartbeat
"do I look like I know what a bitmap is? I just want a gosh dang picture of a hot dog"
Not sure if you're joking around or not, but a "bitmap" is a type of image format, having to do with the colors being turned into integers/bits or whatnot.
@@Chaos89P whoosh
@@Chaos89P
They're paraphrasing a line from "King of the Hill."
@@Chaos89P Dammit Bobby! You didn't get the joke!
DAUGH! I didn't realize it was a KotH reference! Thanks for making me feel like a jackass.
Your videos always take me back to childhood. Making greeting cards with my dot printer used to be one of my favorite things to do.
omgoodness the music during the printing made this SO EPIC! I love this. So retro. So beautiful.
Ohhhh man that's really something, love the aesthetic.
That banner is AMAZING. People would pay for that now days. Back in the day when I'd do long prints like that I'd warm up my ribbon cart with a hair dryer before the print and it'd really help with the streaks at the beginning of the print.
That hot dog is INCREDIBLE. That needs to appear in every video from now on!
I say he should make it an effort to hide the hotdog somewhere in the video each time
It's immensely satisfying watching these old Dot Matrix printers working. Thank for taking me back.
Dude! Your content is so much fun to watch! Your dialogue + choice of music + old tec = a great video! The work you put into the content you provide is much appreciated!
The sound of you tearing the edges off took me back to childhood. Thank you for that.
I was a little scared of it ripping through the print. Must have had that happen to me or something, but don't remember.
@@WR3ND That's why you always folded the edges back and forth a couple of times before ripping them off!
Yeah, I remember it folding weird sometimes too up along the track or down onto the paper. I was probably trying to tear it off too many pages at once or something. That perforated edge could be a beast sometimes.
Nobody:
Clint: I'm -going to make coffee- going to print a crab on a T-shirt.
Print Squidworth instead!
Cranky cause you don't have a cool crab t-shirt aren't you
@@OpenKeith True lol.
Love the Techmoan mug in your cupboard. This was very interesting to watch, I didn't even realize Dot Matrix printers were able to do colour printing!
I like the fact how the screen saver just does a tecno rave when you’re speeding up the printing
this channel has entered peak comfy. This video was great Clint. Love what you're doing with your channel.
12:06 That was one of the best transitions I’ve seen in all of UA-cam this year.
I just wanted to comment on that transition as well. The whole "next morning"-section was awesome. Amazing work, Clint! :-D
Give that young man a participation ribbon! 💯
*In COLOR!!!* 🎨
I have always been curious about color dot matrix printers. Thanks for showing :)
I need a Cool Crab t-shirt, thanks to you.
Keep up the great work.
@@cw696 Definitely want that. It would be cool to wear.
Was gonna say, I need to make something like that.
It would be neat if he started selling ones that are, like, professionally silk screened but look like the dot matrix version. I already have a pretty good idea of how to recreate the look in Photoshop.
Clint, I will PAY for a cool crab shirt. Plz provide
And a hotdogs greetings shirt. Green LGR on the back.
The videos I love most from you are the self-indulgent ones like this. So much giddy joy for retro tech makes my day. :)
What's really amazing is that you clicked print and it printed the document without needing an exorcism.
People say dot matrix printers are noisier than inkjet or laser, but, personally, I greatly prefer that sound to the noises made by the swearing human as they try to make the damn things print.
I got my first computer and printer back around the beginning of the 1990s. My very first printer was a Panasonic KX-P2123. It was a 24-pin dot matrix printer and IIRC, it could print at up to 360 × 360 dpi. With a new-to-decent ribbon, it would rival the print quality of a monochrome inkjet printer of that era. It didn't start noticeably banding the printouts until the ribbon was well worn out. Among other things, I used it to print 3½" × 1" tractor feed adhesive labels (we ran a small video rental business out of our garage) and homework assignments.
According to the owner's manual, the KX-P2123 had a color upgrade kit which would allow it to print in color similarly to the NX-2420. I always wondered what it would be like to get the color kit for it and to print in color. Probably almost as slow as the NX-2420. In the stock, monochrome configuration, the KX-P2123 was reasonably fast (for the era), being able to print a letter sized sheet of text in about a minute in LQ mode, about 2½ minutes in SLQ mode. In draft mode, it could spit out a couple pages of text per minute.
The KX-P2123 was also much quieter than most competitors' 24-pin impact dot matrix printers.
Even today, using plain paper, this printer would still hold its own against modern inkjet printers for monochrome print quality, as far as the human eye can see. Using coated or photo paper, a modern inkjet would mop the floor with it. Plus, modern printers can do color! But, if you need multi-part carbon or carbon-less forms for your business, there are impact dot matrix printers like these which will do up to 360 dpi without missing a beat.
Watching Clint make coffee. What a glorious day.
I consider this an absolute win! Just look at this Banner! #Endgame
What a day, what a lovely day!
He is a man who is very serious about his coffee
I've learned so many things with Clint's video today. He's serious about his coffee and and it's all glorious today!
@@suborbitalprocess Zach! Did you see that?! F. K. ... IN the COFFEE. Clear as a crisp spring morning!
Admire your tenacity to get this done and well worth it. Takes me back 😂
Really love the "mix" in this video , man keep it like that always a joy watching you! Greetings from Argentina
That morning routine was so well edited, It reminds me of Hot Fuzz, good job
Edgar Wright is godlike
“Printing the city on a whole sheet of paper would use way too much ink... LETS PRINT A BANNER!”
AAAAAHHHHH That Techmoan Cup (tm) (c) (r), kudos !!!
I saw that too. 😁
11:51
Literally came here to comment the same thing LOL
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I just need a Cool Crab T-Shirt. Great Video!! I remember my first printer, Citizen Gsx190. Greetings Clint!
I had the same printer and monitor on my old 386SX 33MHz (overclocked to a blistering 40MHz) with 4MB RAM and a 650MB HD.
This is some memories.
Flippin' eck, it's a Techmoan mug!
That's funny. I came to this video from a Techmoan video.
Captions made me laugh like a Lunatic!
*_[printer prints printingly]_*
I had to pause the video :D
Clint always throws little Easter eggs in there
Nice, that joke even translates to Esperanto as "Printilo Printas Printe"
... I should put that on if I add translated subtitles
Thank you all for those likes, I've never had that much likes I Really Appriciate it!
P.S.: my english is not really good with more complex words
@@romajimamulo Aw Snap! that would be even more funny!
Clint, you probably wont see this but let me just say that I freaking love your videos, I've been a subscriber since late 2013/early 2014 and that was one of the finest choices I've made because only you can make using a decades old laser printer seem so freaking interesting, please keep up the good work!
The banner looks amazing, and the sound of the printer is so much nostalgic.
Greeetingss from Chile!!!
*Delays preparing for D&D to watch video of a dot matrix printer.*
I think I have reached peak nerd. Feels good.
Hope you're not the dungeon master
Are... are you _me_ ?
Because i can't imagine more than one person doing the same thing i'm doing right now.
I may not be dming for quite a while, but I do keep putting off world building to watch these.
@@railfanning8017 Not tonight, Dragonborn Bard and the party Face for dealing with things we don't need to smash.
@@existenceisrelative Are you also planning RPG npc's on an alphasmart while watching? If so, we might need to get our MPD sorted out.
Greetings Hot Dog T-Shirt, yes please!
dubaloo budrekot i agree
I'd want a cool crab t-shirt
Add an LGR logo and sell it in his store?
@@kruleworld exactly
Is it compensation or advertisement? Hmm... Either way it's a wiener.
This was a joy to behold. Pure gold. Thanks Clint. I laughed out loud through various sections. I remember printing essays on this damn thing. Sometimes pulling an all-nighter. Used to wake up my poor parents. Coffee breaks are absolutely necessary, but you obviously have the process optimised at 11.
The editing and music choice on this video were *on point* Great job
5:12 Now there is a sound I haven't heard since the late 90's.
sortof was hoping never to hear it again.... but....... times change. : )
I'm always amazed at your passions for this stuff is contagious lol
I have to agree.... used to be I'd go into thrift shops and would barely even acknowledge an electronics section "cuz it's all old junk." After watching this channel for a while, it's my favorite part of thrifting now! Old PCs, printers, the sound of a Model M keyboard bringing back memories of playing old DOS games. Love it.... :)
I really enjoyed the music that you used for this video. Thanks for your dedication into making this work.
I like the extra things you did to this video! It felt like it was more filled with variety than usual.
I think you accidentally made a meme with Cool Crab
Its so surreal when out of context that it just *works*
Maxx Jaeger
I would buy that shirt
Could we get a 40 minute real time video of that hot dog printing. You know...for science!
40 minutes just for two feet of full colored hotdog? Modern printers are a blessing.
This is just awesome, and that printer noise remineded me of all those times i spent with my dad in his workplace as a little kid. Nostalgia...
I love the clunkyness of these old printers. Every print is an event!
tefras14 Well put, an event indeed! 🙈😀
11:37 - how to make great coffee tutorial 🤣
11:50 feat. Techmoan
Thanks LGR, excellent video, really enjoyed the little interlude of you making coffee and going to buy the transfer paper - Cheers.
Ohhh the sound of this thing brings back memories.
My parents worked flight service, so I often went to their workplace as one would goto work and the other got off. Right at the entrance must have been a dot matrix printer that was almost always printing continuously. I know they used to bring home old printed out paper, and that was the paper I used to draw on as a kid.
These dot matrix printer videos are GIVING ME LIFE right now
SIM City map looks like a cross stich pattern..... 🤔 That gives me an idea.
That's so cool. Awesome you got the printer working with color now. Very satisfying to watch. 👍
This was great, i remember my dad had that same printer and i remember it being so super loud.
It's cool you transferred it to shirt that was like the icing on the cake in this video. Great stuff!
My cat was absolutely fascinated watching this thing print.
Nice to see the techmoan mug chilling in the cupboard
That's the best place for that mug
Your passion for this older stuff is so infectious and I love it (coffee making shots were the best)
Ah, brings memories back! I had a Star LC24-10 connected to my Atari STE and I remember one late night when coding in GFA Basic and without thinking started a printout of the code because it’s easier to find errors on paper, and man that printer was loud! I had to cover it with a pillow to muffle it, and boy was it a long listing that took forever! I thought I must have woken up all neighbors in the house, but no one ever mentioned it, so maybe my “muffler” worked? Later I got an HP DeskJet and could print when ever I wanted.
Another thing about that Star printer and the Atari: my then new girlfriend used it and Calamus to do her work application on one of our local newspapers, she got the job and she’s still working on the paper 30 years later. So I use to say it was that that made her to move to my town and me, letting us bring up two great kids and we still lives together! She still has a very colorful language when handling computers when they doesn’t do what the wants em to do! 🤣
Also I'd love if you started selling dot-matrix inspired t-shirt designs.
That cool crab looks amazing!
Yeah, came here to say exactly this.
Love me some 90's a e s t h e t i c t-shirts
Such a great end to the colour dot matrix saga. Thanks LGR
You know, these retro graphics are back in fashion. Personally I would love this shirt.
Ah man brought back high school memories. I was in a vocational school in the 90s.I was in the office program. We had 4 or 5 b&w dot matrix printers. I miss hearing that sound of the printer printing.
will we be able to find "Cool Crab" merch in you merch store now?
Северный Зверёк I’d totally buy a cool crab shirt
Only if it's all mirrored like this would have been after transfer! :)
That suddenly mini vlog in the middle was great. More of that please! :)
Go to his second channel, LGRfoods
This might just be the most satisfying video I've ever seen! And it brings back so many childhood memories...
I still remember my first dot matrix with a color ribbon. I didn't know what to expect. A lot of dithering... but i was happy. Ah yes, memories... I'm with you!
Clint can you upload the COOL CRAB IN THE BEACH you did initially for the t-shirt? I’ll use it as wallpaper till I die 😁
Same here! And wr need those for shirts and stuff👌🏻
he shared it on twitter...I'm going to make it full size on a t shirt for real
i unironically want a cool crab t shirt with the background now
I'd wear it in public.
armani I wonder if whoever owns the rights would care. Probably. Artists get screwed over a lot.
My dad always used to give me big stacks of that printer paper with the tear-off strips when I was a kid to draw on. This brought back memories :3
This has been my favorite episode of LGR ever! :)
You need to print out "IS THIS GOOD FOR THE COMPANY?" a la Office Space
Ha! I love that if it had worked, the shirt would have said BARC LOOC
forestine But in the mirror...
Love your channel. Keep it going as long as you can. We love it.
You tearing off those edges brought back all the childhood memories for me. I miss these printers.