1) Hey, I'm pre-1979 too (but post-1970), and I feel terribly old. And I remember, no, still own a matrix printer.
2) As for ParU's suggestion to ask the resident nerd for help (with KtG's printer): that might help, but please remember to treat such a nerd as a person not a commodity. I am a resident nerd at my dorm; when people started asking me to fix their other electrical appliances as well and repeatedly became angry with me when I was out of my wits or didn't have the time, I began to suspect that many sympathies for my person were purely pragmatic. Which is a baaad thing(IMSBADO).
2) As for ParU's suggestion to ask the resident nerd for help (with KtG's printer): that might help, but please remember to treat such a nerd as a person not a commodity. I am a resident nerd at my dorm; when people started asking me to fix their other electrical appliances as well and repeatedly became angry with me when I was out of my wits or didn't have the time, I began to suspect that many sympathies for my person were purely pragmatic. Which is a baaad thing(IMSBADO).