A line printer prints one entire line of text before advancing to another line. Most early line printers were impact printers. Line printers are mostly...
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code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers. Different types of printers include 3D printers, inkjet printers, laser printers, and thermal...
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A line matrix printer is a computer printer that is a compromise between a line printer and a dot matrix printer. A line matrix printer prints page-wide...
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Line Printer Daemon protocol/Line Printer Remote protocol (or LPD, LPR) is a network printing protocol for submitting print jobs to a remote printer....
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Dot matrix printing (redirect from Ballistic wire printer)
known as serial dot matrix printers. Unlike typewriters or line printers that use a similar print mechanism, a dot matrix printer can print arbitrary patterns...
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Lp0 on fire (redirect from Printer on fire)
for the first line printer, but the error can be displayed for any printer attached to a Unix or Linux system. It indicates a printer error that requires...
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Daisy wheel printing (redirect from Daisywheel printer)
the PC and word processing software. Dot-matrix impact, thermal, or line printers were used where higher speed or image printing were required and where...
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ASCII art (section Line-printer art)
produced on an IBM 1403 line printer. At the same time, Kenneth Knowlton was producing realistic images, also on line printers, by overprinting several...
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A line starve describes the feeding of paper in a line printer back one line or moving the cursor on a character terminal up one line. It is the opposite...
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CUPS (section PrinterSetup)
traditional command line interfaces for the System V and Berkeley print systems, and provides support for the Berkeley print system's Line Printer Daemon protocol...
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Parallel port (redirect from Printer port)
only require one data line. There are many types of parallel ports, but the term has become most closely associated with the printer port or Centronics port...
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Thermal printing (redirect from Direct thermal printer)
to light) Barcode printer Dye-sublimation printer Label printer Label printer applicator LightScribe Line matrix printer Line printer Thermographic printing...
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printer, obtaining the status of print jobs, or cancelling individual print jobs. Protocols listed here are specific for printing. The Line Printer Daemon...
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these line printers. This article will detail the most significant ones. Note that while IBM initially described band printers as belt printers, they...
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IBM 6400 (category Line printers)
IBM 6400 family of line matrix printers were modern highspeed business computer printers introduced by IBM in 1995. These printers were designed for use...
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IBM 1403 (category Line printers)
The IBM 1403 line printer was introduced as part of the IBM 1401 computer in 1959 and had an especially long life in the IBM product line. The original...
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such as line printers and dot-matrix printers. Page printers are often all incorrectly termed “laser printers”—although virtually all laser printers are page...
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Unix-like operating systems. It provides printer spooling and network print server functionality using the Line Printer Daemon protocol. It was abandoned by...
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Impact Printer's character print train IBM 3262: Line printer IBM 3268: Dot matrix printer IBM 3284: Printer IBM 3287: Color printer; 1979 IBM 3288: Line printer...
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Documation (section IMPACT Line printers)
some American elections 3 decades later. They also produced Impact Line printers. In late 1980, Storage Technology Corporation (STC) acquired Documation...
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produce uppercase accented letters, such as É. Overstrike was used on line printers for the same function. This contributed to standardization of such characters...
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Early mainframe printers were usually line printers. Line printers provide a limited set of commands to control how the paper is advanced when print lines...
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IBM 3800 (category IBM printers)
positioned as a line printer replacement with additional features. Besides the much greater speed, enhancements over the line printer included: Forms...
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Line Printer Daemon protocol, NetWare, NetBIOS/NetBEUI, or JetDirect. A print server may be a networked computer with one or more shared printers. Alternatively...
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Dye-sublimation printing (redirect from Dye sublimation printer)
Barcode printer Card printer Daisy wheel printing Dot matrix printing Label printer Label printer applicator Line matrix printer Line printer List of...
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Spooling (redirect from Printer spooling)
mediating between a computer application and a slow peripheral, such as a printer. Spooling allows programs to "hand off" work to be done by the peripheral...
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daemon with which those programs communicate. These programs support the line printer daemon protocol, so that other machines on a network can submit jobs...
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IBM 716 (category Line printers)
The IBM 716 line printer was used with IBM 700/7000 series computers in the 1950s and 1960s. It was introduced on May 21, 1952 with the IBM 701 and withdrawn...
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impact printer. As compared to dot matrix printers that print a single column of dots at a time, this printer generally creates an entire line of dots...
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IBM 1132 (category Line printers)
The IBM 1132 line printer was the normal printer for the IBM 1130 computer system. It printed 120 character lines at 80 lines per minute. The character...
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