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impact printer

(Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) any printing device in which the printing surface strikes the paper, such as a traditional typewriter or a line printer. See also non-impact printer

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im′pact print`er

a computer printer, as a dot-matrix or daisy-wheel printer, that forms characters by causing a printhead to strike at paper through an inked ribbon. Compare page printer.

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Noun

impact printer - a printer that prints by mechanical impacts

bar printer - an impact printer that uses a bar to carry the type slugs

chain printer - an impact printer that carries the type slugs by links of a revolving chain

printing machine, printer - a machine that prints

stylus printer, wire matrix printer, wire printer - an impact printer in which each character is represented by a pattern of dots made by wires or styli

Translations

impact printer

n → Impactdrucker m

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