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[michael_dorfman]

Why would you use a daisy wheel and not an inkjet or laserjet?

I used to have a daisy-wheel back in the day, and the thing sounded like a machine-gun. I can't say I miss it (although the print quality was nice.)

[jedberg → michael_dorfman]

The answer was right in the article -- tractor feed paper. 10s of thousands of pages without having to refill a tray.

[michael_dorfman → jedberg]

In that case, a dot-matrix would do as well as a daisy-wheel.