The letter form strikes a ribbon of inkdepositing the ink on the page and thus printing a character. By rotating the daisy wheel, different characters are selected for printing. These printers were also referred to as letter-quality printers because they could produce text which was as clear and crisp as a typewriter. The fastest letter-quality printers printed at 30 characters per second. Dot matrix printer Sample output from 9-pin dot matrix printer one character expanded to show detail The term[…]
