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what is the purpose of the

printer?
printer is a peripheral which makes a
persistent human readable
representation of graphics or text on
paper or similar physical media.

History of printer
The world's first computer printer was a 19th-century
mechanically driven apparatus invented by Charles
Babbage for his difference engine. This system used a
series of metal rods with characters printed on them
and stuck a roll of paper against the rods to print the
characters. The first commercial printers generally used
mechanisms from electric typewriters and Teletype
machines, which operated in a similar fashion.

The demand for higher speed led to the

development of new systems specifically for
computer use. Among the systems widely
used through the 1980s were daisy wheel
systems similar to typewriters, line printers
that produced similar output but at much
higher speed, and dot matrix systems that
could mix text and graphics but produced
relatively low-quality output. The plotter is use
for those requiring high quality line art like
blueprints.

The introduction of the low-cost laser printer in

1984 with the first HP LaserJet, and the addition
of PostScript in next year's Apple Laser Writer, set
off a revolution in printing known as desktop
publishing. Laser printers using PostScript mixed
text and graphics, like dot-matrix printers, but at
quality levels formerly available only from
commercial typesetting systems

in 1990, most simple printing tasks like fliers and brochures

were now created on personal computers and then laser
printed; expensive offset printing systems were being
dumped as scrap. The HP Deskjet of 1988 offered the same
advantages as laser printer in terms of flexibility, but
produced somewhat lower quality output (depending on
the paper) from much less expensive mechanisms. Inkjet
systems rapidly displaced dot matrix and daisy wheel
printers from the market. By the 2000s high-quality
printers of this sort had fallen under the $100 price point
and became common place.

The Types Of Printer :

An impact printer makes
contact with the paper. It
usually forms the print
image by pressing an inked
ribbon against the paper
using a hammer or pins.
Following are some
examples of impact printers.

IMPACT PRINTER

Dot-Matrix Printers
The dot-matrix printer uses print heads containing from 9 to 24 pins. These pins produce
patterns of dots on the paper to form the individual characters. The 24 pin dot-matrix
printer produces more dots that a 9 pin dot-matrix printer, which results in much better
quality and clearer characters. The general rule is: the more pins, the clearer the letters on
the paper. The pins strike the ribbon individually as the print mechanism moves across the
entire print line in both directions, i-e, from left to right, then right to left, and so on. The
user can produce a color output with a dot-matrix printer (the user will change the black
ribbon with a ribbon that has color stripes). Dot-matrix printers are inexpensive and
typically print at speeds of 100-600 characters per second.

Daisy-wheel printers
In order to get the quality of type found on typewriters, a daisy-wheel impact
printer can be used. It is called daisy-wheel printer because the print
mechanism looks like a daisy; at the end of each Petal is a fully formed
character which produces solid-line print. A hammer strikes a petal
containing a character against the ribbon, and the character prints on the
paper. Its speed is slow typically 25-55 characters per second.

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