Minor Annoyances

Today I spent the better part of twenty minutes trying to get the paper back on the pins of the dot matrix printer we still have in the lab, trying again and again to align everything just so and when that failed pulling out the little part along the side that balled up and jammed up the works.

Were these printers as bad back in the 80s and 90s? Perhaps I have forgotten, or maybe the relative ease of laser printers just makes the experience feel all the worse?