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Yes, I have personally seen since 1973 when I first began using computers a nearly unbelievable number of different types of computer printers (including many different types of 3D printers, that can actually print usable physical objects).
Looking at the history of computer printers there have been orders of magnitude more different types of printers than I have seen myself. Even just considering printer speed and nothing else, the various mechanism that I have heard of range from as slow as 10 characters per second to as fast as tens of thousands of pages per minute! The types of "ink" used by different types of printers has included: inked cloth ribbon, one time plastic film ribbon, liquid, solid electric spark vaporized (I personally have one of these printers the design was not produced for very long as it had some problems), photographic paper, thermal paper, xerographic toner, etc. There were some photographic paper printers that exposed the film directly using electron beams instead of light!
To summarize there are different types of computer printers both because different printer users have different requirements and different printer makers have different ideas and access to patents that they use to design the printer around. Some types of printer succeed wildly in the market, while others are utter flops.
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