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Pages in category "Non-impact printing" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... Water-jet printer; Whiteprint; X. Xerography; Xerox 1200;
Dot matrix printers create noise when the pins or typeface strike the ribbon to the paper, [28] and sound-damping enclosures may have to be used in quiet environments. They can only print lower-resolution graphics, with limited color performance, limited quality, and lower speeds compared to non-impact printers. [29] [30] [31]
Some types of impact line printers are drum printers, band-printers, and chain printers. Non-impact technologies have also been used, e.g., thermal line printers were popular in the 1970s and 1980s, [3] some inkjet and laser printers produce output a line or a page at a time.
As an impact printer, the term mainly refers to low-resolution impact printers, with a column of 8, 9 or 24 "pins" hitting an ink-impregnated fabric ribbon, like a typewriter ribbon, onto the paper. It was originally contrasted with both daisy wheel printers and line printers that used fixed-shape embossed metal or plastic stamps to mark paper ...
The term dot matrix printer is used for impact printers that use a matrix of small pins to transfer ink to the page. [17] The advantage of dot matrix over other impact printers is that they can produce graphical images in addition to text; however the text is generally of poorer quality than impact printers that use letterforms (type).
The term Printing Press refers to the nature of the process, in which there is contact between the system that applies the ink to the substrate and substrate that the ink is pressed onto. Digital Printers however are non-impact printing processes; to print, a devices “fires” drops of ink from the print heads onto the substrate.
Impact printers create an image by using some mechanism to physically press an inked ribbon against the page, causing the ink to be deposited on the page in the shape desired. These printers are typically loud, but remain in use today because of their unique ability to function with multipart forms.
Dot matrix printers are divided into two main groups: serial dot matrix printers and line matrix [1] printers. Line matrix mechanism A serial dot matrix printer has a print head that runs 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, much like the print ...