Impact printer
No. They use pins or keys to strike a ribbon that has ink on it. The ink is transferred to the paper. These are rarely seen today, having been replaced by ink jet or laser printers.
An impact printer
Impact printers tend to be noisy while non-impact printers are much quieter. Impact printers use either small pins or characters to strike an ink ribbon and imprint an image onto paper. Non-impact printers use some type of ink that is applied to the paper without touching it. Both laser and ink jet printers are non-impact printers.
Impact printers use a 'daisy wheel' or a 'golf ball' to physically press letters through an ink ribbon onto the paper - think along the lines of an old typewriter. Non-impact printers 'squirt' microscopic drops of liquid ink directly onto the paper.
There are many different types of printers. Laser printers use a laser technique and toner to create the image on paper. Solid ink printer use ink stick (crayons basically) that get melted and then sprayed onto a drum and transfered onto paper. Line printers usually use a line of hammers that strike an ink ribbon to create the text. Ink printer and plotters use a printhead that moves back and forth and sprays the ink onto the media.
Line printers as well as serial dot matrix printers use pins to strike against the inked ribbon, making dots on the paper and forming the desired characters. The differences are that line printers use hammer bank (or print-shuttle) instead of print head, this print-shuttle has hammers , and these hammers are arranged in a horizontal row .The hammer bank uses the same technology as the permanent magnet print head with the small difference that instead of print wires the print-shuttle has hammers. The printing mechanism works as follow. The permanent magnetic field holds the hammer spring in stressed, ready to strike position. The driver sends electrical current to hammer coil, which then creates electromagnetic field opposite to the permanent magnetic field. When both fields equalize, the energy stored in the spring is released to strike the hammer against the ribbon and prints a dot on the paper.
Dot-matrix printers. Daisy wheel printers have hammers (pins) that strike against raised type set around the edge of the wheel.
Combination of a long printers' strike and inept publisher.
In simple terms - the printer has a vertical line of metal pins - that strike the paper through an ink ribbon, forming the words or images by creating microscopic dots on the paper.
In 1786 printers in Philadelphia went on strike. Franklin invited them to conduct their meetings at his house. Here he and his fellow printers plotted strategy. He never forgot his working class roots. Out of this strike grew the Franklin Typographical Society. Evidence suggests Franklin wrote the by-laws.
In simple terms - the printer has a vertical line of metal pins - that strike the paper through an ink ribbon, forming the words or images by creating microscopic dots on the paper.
Impact printers strike the paper, usually with an ink filled ribbon between the striking object and the paper, similar to an old fashioned typewriter. Non-impact printer make there impression on the paper without striking it. The can melt something onto the paper or squirt ink onto it, etc.