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Printer forms characters and graphics on a piece of paper by striking a mechanism against an inked ribbon that physically contacts the paper.?
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∙ 12y ago
Several types of printers used an ink or carbon ribbon in the way you described.
The daisy wheel printer and ball printer would spin a wheel that has the printable characters, then the wheel would strike the ribbon, leaving an imprint on the paper.
The dot matrix printer used a number of pins that struck the ribbon to generate a printable character.
The chain printer had several full sets of all printable characters on a long chain, and the chain spun rapidly on a track. As the appropriate printable character arrived at the proper location, a high speed solenoid driven hammer struck the chain, causing the ribbon to leave an imprint on the paper.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 11y agoManual printers. You have to manually select every single letter in sequential order. However they are reliable and they don't need electricity. They can still be had new in some countries, secondhand in others. They are called typewriters.
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∙ 15y agoIt is an impact printer. Typewriters and many early computer printers worked this way.
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∙ 11y agoA dot matrix printer fires pins (not hammers) against an inked ribbon. A daisy wheel printer uses hammers to fire raised characters on the wheel against an inked ribbon.
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∙ 11y agoThe hammers are known as pins, and are used in a dot matrix printer.
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∙ 13y agoImpact printer
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∙ 14y agoImpact Printer
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∙ 12y agoImpact
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