A line printer prints one entire line of text before advancing to another line. Most early line printers were
impact printers.
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)
In computing, a printer is a peripheral machine which makes a persistent representation of graphics or text, usually on paper. While most output is human-readable, bar code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers. Different types of printers include 3D printers, inkjet printers, laser printers, and thermal printers.
HP LaserJet 5 printer
The Game Boy Pocket Printer, a thermal printer released as a peripheral for the Nintendo Game Boy
This is an example of a wide-carriage dot matrix printer, designed for 14-inch (360 mm) wide paper, shown with 8.5-by-14-inch (220 mm × 360 mm) legal paper. Wide carriage printers were often used in the field of businesses, to print accounting records on 11-by-14-inch (280 mm × 360 mm) tractor-feed paper. They were also called "132-column printers".
Liquid ink cartridge from Hewlett-Packard HP 845C inkjet printer
