Both on and off-line printers were impact printers, capable of printing a line of either 120 or 160 characters, depending on the model ( and of course the width of the paper loaded ! ).
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As the technology matured, most large printer installations were drum printers, a type of impact printer which could print an entire line of text at once through the use of a high speed rotary printing drum.
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The stock purchase with Pubco Corp ., a Cleveland-based manufacturer of thermal printers and thermal and impact printer supplies, is part of Smith Corona's ongoing reorganization plan and replaces an earlier deal with Carolina Wholesale Office Machine Co.
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I wouldn't expect the Lexmark 2030 to be as durable as that old Epson impact printer, but considering you could buy three of the Lexmarks for the price of the old Epson, that doesn't seem to be much of an issue.
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Early 1980s impact printers used a simple form of internal raster image processing, using low-resolution built-in bitmap fonts to render raw character data sent from the computer, and only capable of storing enough dot matrix data for one printed line at a time.
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While the English language in general has a few retronyms ( whole milk, snow skiing, acoustic guitar ), hacker jargon is necessarily ( at points capriciously so ) rich in retronyms, e . g . plaintext, natural language, impact printer and eyeball search.
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The main benefit of using a one-trip thermal transfer ribbon is that providing the correct settings are applied prior to printing, an 100 % density of printed image is guaranteed; compare this with a pre-inked ribbon on a dot matrix impact printer ribbon which gradually fades with usage.
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Compared to the older 9-pin models, a new 24-pin impact printer not only produced better-looking NLQ text, it printed the page more quickly ( largely due to the 24-pin's ability to print NLQ with a single pass ) . 24-pin printers repeated this feat in bitmap graphics mode, producing higher-quality graphics in reduced time.
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Letter-quality impact printers, however, were slow, noisy, incapable of printing graphics or images ( unless the programmable microspacing and over-use of the dot were employed ), sometimes limited to monochrome, and limited to a fixed set ( usually one ) of typefaces without operator intervention, though certain font effects like underlining and boldface could be achieved by overstriking.
