We'd draw maps by hand that sprawled across several pages of taped-together printer paper, discovering magical artifacts and puzzling over the nature of hollow voices that called to us from the dark.
But each printer, together with its nozzle size and the type of plastic used, causes miniscule imperfections.
Hardware hacker MIDIDesaster has been putting together dot-matrix printer jams for over a year, but he just released a fresh batch including the Macarena, Toccata and Fugue by Bach, and Undisclosed Desires by Muse.
To save costs, printing firms have been lashing together low-end printers instead of buying high-end models.
Working together, computers and printers are now sophisticated enough to print the most obscure fonts, the brightest colors and the most detailed graphics.
A year after the EMC partnership began, Dell and Lexmark decided to start making printers together.
Engineers at several startups as well as bigger players like Apple Computer thought 802 was an ideal place for the unglamorous task of wirelessly lashing together PCs and printers in office networks.
Together with the master printer George Devenish, La Dell had set up a lithographic workshop modelled on Parisian ateliers.
None of us had used 3D modelling software before, nor a 3D printer, but together with printing expert Joel Gibbard, we produced our own jewellery.
Around 1616, Chapman's printer pieced together a complete folio edition of Homer from oddments of earlier editions, proudly called The Whole Works of Homer.
After finding success on Kickstarter, ZUtA Labs is piecing together its mobile robotic printer.
