dot matrix
pin-feed paper
A dot matrix printer uses a printhead with a hammer that moves back and forth horizontally at high speed to strike an inked ribbon against the paper, creating characters and images.
A dotmatrix printer uses a ribbon and pins to transfer Inc. onto paper. This type of printer is no longer made and very few are still in use.
Continuous Forms
A dot matrix is an impact printer. Either 9 or 24 pins are fired against an inked ribbon to leave marks on the paper. An impact printer enables printing to be done on each sheet of multi-paged listing paper.
Dot Matrix
platter
A dot matrix printer uses continuous, fan-fold paper. Such paper is fed through the printer by pegs on a roller engaging holes along both edges of the paper.
dot matrix printer
It is an impact printer. Someone else has already asked this.
According to computer experts, a dot matrix printer is also known as an impact printer because of its inkjet printing ability.
well dot-matrix, inkjet and laser are types of printer. and a scanner is an image capture device with a camera that slides across a document or photo, just like in a xerox machine. the dot-matrix is an old technology from the first printers for computers it used a matrix of tiny wire pins that struck a thin metal film that struck a ribbon like on a typewriter. an inkjet printer pulls ink from a cartridge or ink reservoir and operates like a tiny squirt gun that shoots ink at the paper. and a laser printer has a metal drum that is temporarily pockmarked by a laser beam and it rolls across a paper giving its impression to the sheet of paper