Line printer
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A line printer prints one entire line of text before advancing to another line.
IBM 1403 line printer, the classic line printer of the mainframe era.
Drum Printer
Fragment of line printer drum showing "%" characters.
Fragment of printer band, sitting on test printout for the characters (top) and hammer flight times (bottom)
Dot matrix printing
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Dot matrix printing, sometimes called impact matrix printing, is a computer printing process in which ink is applied to a surface using a relatively low-resolution dot matrix for layout. Dot matrix pr
Line printer
…the 1970s and 1980s, some inkjet and laser printers produce output a line or a page at a time. Many impact printers, such as the daisywheel printer and dot matrix printer, used a print head that printed a character then moved on until an entire line was printed. Line printers were much faster, as each impact printed an…
A dot matrix printer
A Kolkata Suburban Railway rail ticket printed by a dot matrix printer
An Epson MX-80, a classic model that remained in use for many years. IBM sold it as their IBM 5152.
Epson VP-500 Printer with its cover removed