Dot-Matrix Printout
Images and text made by an impact printer that strikes a ribbon with a grid of tiny pins. Dot-matrix printers spread through offices and computer labs in the 1970s on perforated tractor-feed paper.
Spot it
- 01Visible coarse dot grid
- 02Horizontal banding lines
- 03Perforated tractor-feed edges
Why it happens
A print head of pins fires dots through an inked ribbon onto paper line by line, so shapes are built from discrete dots and slight misalignment shows as banding.
Recreate it in Pixio
Image edit prompt“Print this image as a dot-matrix printout: purple-black ribbon ink made of coarse visible dots, horizontal banding between print passes, slightly uneven ink density, perforated tractor-feed paper edges with punched holes and faint green-bar stripes. Keep the original subject and composition.”
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