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ESC/P, short for Epson Standard Code for Printers and sometimes styled Escape/P, is a printer control language developed by Epson to control computer printers. It was mainly used in dot matrix printers and some inkjet printers, and is still widely used in many receipt thermal printers. During the era of dot matrix printers, it was also used by ...
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".
Dot matrix printing, [1] sometimes called impact matrix printing, is a computer printing process in which ink is applied to a surface using a relatively low-resolution dot matrix for layout. 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 ...
Matrices created by Jean Jannon around 1640. The Garamond typeface installed with most Microsoft software is based on these designs. [1] [2] [3] In the manufacture of metal type used in letterpress printing, a matrix (from the Latin meaning womb or a female breeding animal) is the mould used to cast a letter, known as a sort. [4]
In Times New Roman's name, Roman is a reference to the regular or roman style (sometimes also called Antiqua), the first part of the Times New Roman family to be designed. Roman type has roots in Italian printing of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, but Times New Roman's design has no connection to Rome or to the Romans .
Daisy wheel printing is an impact printing technology invented in 1970 by Andrew Gabor [1] at Diablo Data Systems.It uses interchangeable pre-formed type elements, each with typically 96 glyphs, to generate high-quality output comparable to premium typewriters such as the IBM Selectric, but two to three times faster.
The blackboard bold letter style originated in the 1960s to distinguish bold letters from ordinary letters on a blackboard or using a typewriter; in professionally typeset documents, bold fonts were used for the same purpose. Since then, blackboard bold has gradually gained currency, and is now commonly used in mathematical printing to denote ...
Didot is a group of typefaces. The word/name Didot came from the famous French printing and type-producing Didot family. [1] The classification is known as modern, or Didone. The most famous Didot typefaces were developed in the period 1784–1811. Firmin Didot (1764–1836) cut the letters, and cast them as type in Paris.