Character printer
A character printer is part of electronic data processing technology and is considered a peripheral device for outputting lists and texts on paper. Character printers belong to the group of impact printers . The type wheel printer and the ball head printer belong to this printer family .
In the early days of PC technology in the mid-1980s, character printers were part of the standard range of printer manufacturers. Character printers asserted themselves because of their better typeface compared to the dot matrix printers in the office and offered more advantages with the PC connection than classic typewriters.
The disadvantage of this method is that the respective type of character set has to be brought into the respective working position by rotation, which is associated with a more or less long delay time and noise generation. Manufacturers of type wheel printers had a wide variety of fonts on offer as inexpensive accessories. However, there were limits to this type of printer, especially for multilingual texts and graphic output. In most applications, the character printers were initially replaced by inexpensive matrix printers (e.g. dot matrix printers ), later also by page printers (e.g. laser printers ).
literature
- Manfred Precht, Nikolaus Meier, Dieter Tremel: Basic IT knowledge . An introduction to the theory and practice of modern IT. Addison-Wesley Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-8273-2129-8 , printer selection criteria, p. 126-127 .
Web links
- Printers and Plotters Retrieved March 5, 2013