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impact printer

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impact printer
A printer that uses a printing mechanism that bangs the character image into the ribbon and onto the paper. See printer for examples.
impact printer [′im‚pakt ‚print·ər]
(graphic arts)
A line printer that has one or more character fonts, a ribbon or other inking device, a paper transport, and some means of impacting desired characters or character elements on the paper.

(printer)impact printer - The earlier, noisier kind of printer where part of the mechanism comes into contact with the paper. The term would only be only used in contrast to "non-impact printer". Examples include line printer, daisy wheel printer, golf ball printer, dot matrix printer, Braille printer.


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It includes sections on TallyGenicom's range of Impact printer, Colour Laser, Line Printer, Mono Laser and after-sales solutions.
The company will aim to acquire a 10% share in the Chinese color printer market and a 30% share in the dot impact printer market in China by 2007.
 
 
 
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