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Known as a tractor feed, in which a roller with pegs that engage in holes punched along both edges of the paper, is used to move the paper through the printer. The paper used is normally continuous fan-fold listing paper.

The second type of dot matrix is one that has rubber rollers instead of a tractor feed. Here, single sheets or two sheets with a carbon sheet in between, can be either hand fed or auto fed from a paper tray. A detachable tractor feed tool can be fitted if continuous listing paper is to be also used on this type of dot matrix printer.

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Name of the paper used in Dot matrix printer?

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The paper transport system of a dot matrix printer is primarily what?

Earlier dot-matrix printers used a transport mechanism called tractor feed to move perforated sheets of a folded stack of pages through the printer. Removable strips lined both sides of the paper; the strips were punched with spaced holes. Wheels or belts with teeth that mated with the spaced holes moved the paper through the printer. While these printers were rarely found in homes after inkjet printers became popular, they can still can be found in commercial or government sites.


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Often used in an office, a dot matrix normally uses continuous, fan-fold, listing paper. A tractor roller (pegs on the roller engages punched holes on both edges of the paper) is used to feed the paper through the printer. This set up means that the printer can be left unattended while printing lots of data over many hours. Some dot matrix printers may have rubber rollers instead of a tractor roller. The paper used here could either be A4 or A3 single-sheet paper, or if a detachable tractor unit is clipped on to the printer, listing paper (as described above) could be used as and when required.


Likely cause of paper jam on a dot matrix printer?

paper got feed in unproper position. wrong type of paper (letter, a4, legal...etc) Disfungsional roller if you used paper is involved - forgeting there's a staples on it !


Why does some printer paper have holes on its left and right margins?

The holes on the left and right margins of printer paper are called tractor feed holes and are used to help guide the paper through continuous feed printers. These printers use sprockets or tractors to ensure the paper is fed through accurately and consistently. Tractor feed holes are no longer necessary for most modern printers that use friction feed mechanisms.


What is the quality of do-matrix printer compared to?

The quality of a dot matrix printer depends on whether it has 9 or 24 pins. Compared to an inkjet or laser, the quality can be less. It rather depends on what the dot matrix will be used for? As an impact printer, it is mostly used to print through the pages of multi-paged, continuous, listing paper, as used in many offices. Such paper needs a tractor feed (pins on a roller engaging holes punched along the edges of the paper), and can be left unattended while printing takes place. If rubber rollers are used instead, printing can be done on A4 single-sheet paper from a tray, or hand-fed on A4 multi-pages to produce a top copy and a carbon copy.


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When is a dot-matrix printer used?

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What causes paper jamming in printers?

paper got feed in unproper position. wrong type of paper (letter, a4, legal...etc) Disfungsional roller if you used paper is involved - forgeting there's a staples on it !


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