How can I delay after sending each character to a device?

Can this be done with a shell script:
Send a file to /dev/lp0 one character
at a time so that I can slow down the
transfer rate slightly by executing
no-ops between the output of each
character.

Motivation: an old Okidata dot-matrix
printer that I want to use to print
some long program listings on fan-fold
paper. It prints garbage that some
experimentation revealed to be the
result of it dropping approximately every
other character.

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