Good morning, Charles.

 CA> I think that's approximately a small box of paper? 

  A ream is a ream, at 500 sheets. 10 lbs or 33 lbs is still 500 sheets.

 CA> I have at least a half-dozen dot matrix printers, even one 132
 CA> column (very noisy) heavy duty model that can print 24/7

  I had one of these at one time too, daisy-wheeled. Very nice output. I
  passed it on to a friend that wanted to do diagram printing. Looking around
  my room here, I see 4 dot-matrix units. You are a more dedicated collector
  than I am. ;-)) Mine all run still. And I use two printers routinely, the
  USB Lexmark and the LPT1 Canon 4000.       Fun !

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