Brother. I have one in my office, one at home, one in storage at my in-laws that I use when I visit, and one I bought one for my son. The oldest is over 15 years old and still works a treat, if a little slow by modern standards. My father was a Brother dealer 45 years ago (not computer printers, obviously) and they were a stand-up company that put on good dinner spreads for their dealers (and their kids), so I’m a little biased.
I also have a nice Toshiba dot-matrix in my office, however I haven’t tried it since I upgraded the office machine to Windows 7 from W2K (last year), so I don’t know if there are drivers for it.
Our printer at home is on the same electrical circuit as the stereo system, which however also uses a line conditioner, with undervoltage protection provided by step-up transformers and mechanical relays. Every time we print something you can hear the relays in the conditioner kicking on.
