daisywheel printer

• Tipo de impresora de impacto que utiliza una rueda giratoria con caracteres en relieve en sus pétalos para golpear una cinta entintada contra el papel; se usó ampliamente en máquinas de escribir y primeras impresoras de computadora antes de la llegada de las impresoras matriciales y láser.

A type of impact printer that uses a rotating wheel with raised characters on its petals to strike an ink ribbon against paper, commonly used in typewriters and early computer printers before the advent of dot-matrix and laser printers.

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   A type of impact printer that uses a wheel with raised characters (like a daisy) to print text, common in the 1970s and 1980s.

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   • The daisywheel printer produced high-quality, typewriter-like text.
   • Offices used daisywheel printers for official documents before laser printers became affordable.
   • The daisywheel printer was slower than dot-matrix printers but produced sharper characters.