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> find an old daisy-wheel printer

I'm definitely on board with the analog approach, but this is interesting. What's the reason for recommending a daisy-wheel printer compared to other printing technologies? Is it just that the deformation caused by the impact of the type serves as additional redundancy or is the ink (or its adhesion to the paper) somehow superior to other printing processes in this regard?

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My Reason: Low-tech ink, with a long-established track record of Just Working over long periods of time. (The deformation might help in corner cases such as poor storage conditions.) Vs. the plastic in laser printer toner might disintegrate in a few centuries, and chemical engineers may not know all the ways that modern inkjet formulations could degrade over time.

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