Back in the early days of computing, user terminals utilized line printers for output. Naturally this took an incredible amount of paper, but it came with the advantage of creating a hard copy of ...

A line printer that uses a metal band ... the hammer pushes the paper into the ribbon and against the embossed image of the letter, digit or symbol. Band printers can print up to approximately ...

It’s a roughly 175lb (80 Kg) beast capable of printing 100 lines per minute. Each line is 132 characters wide, printed on the tractor-feed green bar paper we all associate with old computer systems.

(1) A wide-format inkjet printer. The paper is taped onto a drum for precise alignment to the nozzles. (2) An old line printer technology that used formed character images around a cylindrical ...