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Close-up view of dot matrix text produced by a printer Dot matrix pattern woven into fabric in 1858 using punched cards on a Jacquard loom Dot matrix-style skywriting. A dot matrix is a 2-dimensional patterned array, used to represent characters, symbols and images. Most types of modern technology use dot matrices for display of information ...
A 16×2-character dot-matrix display, where each character is made from a grid of 5×7 dots. A dot-matrix display is a low-cost electronic digital display device that displays information on machines such as clocks, watches, calculators, and many other devices requiring a simple alphanumeric (and/or graphic) display device of limited resolution.
Dot matrix printers are a type of impact printer that prints using a fixed number of pins or wires [2] [3] and typically use a print head that moves back and forth or in an up-and-down motion on the page and prints by impact, striking an ink-soaked cloth ribbon against the paper. They were also known as serial dot matrix printers. [4]
This contrasts with the 300–360 (or 240) dpi of early models, and the approximate 200 dpi of dot-matrix printers and fax machines, which gave faxed and computer-printed documents—especially those that made heavy use of graphics or coloured block text—a characteristic "digitized" appearance, because of their coarse, obvious dither patterns ...
Near letter-quality is a form of impact dot matrix printing. What The New York Times called "dot-matrix impact printing", [2] was deemed almost good enough to be used in a business letter [5] Reviews in the later 1980s ranged from "good but not great" [6] to "endowed with a simulated typewriter-like quality".
Pages in category "Dot matrix printers" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Brother Twinriter; D.
A dot matrix is a 2-dimensional array of dots used to represent characters, symbols and images. "Dot matrix" may also refer to:- Dot matrix printing (or impact matrix printing), a type of computer printing; Dot matrix printers, computer printers that implement dot-matrix impact printing; Dot-matrix display, a type of display device
|color-even= Sets every other dot to a specific color (default red) |color-odd= Sets every odd dot to a specific color (default red) |square= Makes the chart/plot a square (default no) |width= The width of the chart |picture= The picture for the background of the chart, excluding File: or Image: (default Blank.png) |size= The size of the dots ...