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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 was used for those requiring
high quality line art like blueprints.
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 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 LaserWriter, 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
commonplace.

The Types of Printer :

Impact 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.

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 dotmatrix 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 100600 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 daisywheel 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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