Industrial printing that never stops the line

A dot matrix printer has a small print head that moves left and right across the page, one character at a time. A line matrix printer uses a full-width shuttle of hammers that prints an entire line at once, which is why it's measured in lines per minute (LPM) rather than characters per second. That makes it dramatically faster, far more durable and much cheaper per page for high-volume work — a Printronix P8000 prints 500 to 2,000 lines per minute, continuously, all day.

Three reasons: cost, toughness and forms. Printronix states line matrix consumable cost per page is roughly one-fifth that of laser, which is significant at hundreds of thousands of pages a month. Line matrix printers are built for dusty, hot, humid factory and warehouse environments where a laser printer's toner and fuser would fail. And because it's an impact technology, it prints multi-part carbon-copy forms up to 6 parts in one pass — something a laser physically cannot do.

In Johor the biggest users are logistics and warehousing — freight forwarders, 3PL providers and distribution centres printing delivery orders, bills of lading, manifests, picking lists and packing slips all day. Beyond that: ports and free zones, manufacturing plants (build sheets, work orders), and food and beverage processing. Anywhere that prints high volumes of operational documents in a tough environment — and where a stopped printer stops the shipment.

Yes. Advanced First Computer Sdn Bhd is an appointed Printronix reseller, and we carry out the maintenance service ourselves. That means you buy genuine units with proper warranty, get genuine Printronix ribbons and spare parts, and are serviced by our own trained technicians here in Johor — rather than waiting on a supplier in Kuala Lumpur or across the causeway.

Yes — the Printronix S809, a 24-pin serial dot matrix printer. It's the right size for an SME back office printing invoices, delivery orders, vouchers and multi-part forms: 136 columns, 900 characters per second, under 54 dBA so it can sit beside your staff, and rated for 57,000 pages a month. It still carries Printronix build quality — an 800 million character printhead and a 25 million character extended-life ribbon. See the S809 details above.

Yes — original plus 7 copies in a single pass, on continuous fan-fold forms from 3″ to 17″ wide and up to 0.635 mm thick. It auto-adjusts for forms thickness and uses heavy-duty 6-pin tractors with a jam sensor, so pre-printed and serialised sets feed straight without staff lining up paper by hand. An optional second front tractor lets you keep two different forms loaded at once.

In most cases, yes. It supports Epson ESC/P LQ series and IBM Proprinter XL24 / Personal Printer 2391 emulations, which are the modes Malaysian accounting and ERP packages normally drive a dot matrix printer in, and it connects by USB 2.0, parallel, serial RS-232 or Ethernet 10/100 — all standard. Tell us which system you run and what your forms look like, and we'll confirm the setup before you buy rather than after.

It comes down to volume and environment. Choose the S809 when the printer sits in an office, shop counter or accounts room producing invoices, delivery orders, vouchers and payroll — thousands to tens of thousands of pages a month — and when noise matters because staff sit nearby. Choose the P8000 line matrix when the printer lives on a warehouse, plant or distribution floor producing picking lists, manifests and bills of lading in the hundreds of thousands of pages a month, in dust, heat and vibration. Plenty of sites run both: an S809 in the accounts office, P8000s on the shipping floor.

Yes — genuine Printronix ribbon cartridges in standard life (~17,000 pages) and extended life (~30,000 pages), plus hammer banks, shuttle assemblies, tractors, ribbon decks and other spares. We can also set up a scheduled consumables supply so you never run out mid-shift.

Yes. We offer on-site installation, preventive maintenance visits, breakdown response and annual maintenance contracts. For production environments we can also hold critical spares and advise on a standby unit, so a fault never halts your shipping or production line.

Yes. The P8000 comes with USB 2.0, RS-232 serial and Ethernet 10/100BaseT as standard, and supports LP+, ANSI, PCL 2, TN5250 and TN3270 emulations plus PGL and VGL graphics — so it drops into IBM AS/400 and iSeries, SAP and most ERP environments. IPDS is available as an option, and the P8000 Plus OpenPrint models add PDF and PostScript printing.

All of Johor. We're based in Skudai, which puts us under an hour from the main logistics and industrial areas — Pasir Gudang and Johor Port, the Port of Tanjung Pelepas and Gelang Patah, Senai and the airport cargo area, Tebrau, Kulai, Iskandar Puteri and JB city. Being local is the point: when a line matrix printer stops in a warehouse, you need a technician on site the same day — not a ticket queued with a supplier in Kuala Lumpur.

Yes, and it's a common arrangement. We're used to quoting, invoicing and reporting to a Singapore head office while the printers, ribbons and on-site service all sit at your Johor site. You get one local point of contact for the machines, no cross-border service gap, and we keep your Singapore office in the loop. English, Malay or Chinese — whichever you prefer.

Yes — up to 6-part multipart forms in a single pass, on continuous fan-fold media from 3″ to 17″ wide, including pre-printed forms, labels and recycled stock. The P8000 Zero Tear model is designed specifically for expensive multi-part and serialised forms, tearing off a single form on demand with no wasted sheets.