daisywheel printer

• Type d'imprimante à impact qui utilise une roue rotative portant des caractères en relief sur ses pétales pour frapper un ruban encreur contre le papier ; largement utilisée dans les machines à écrire et les premières imprimantes d'ordinateur avant l'apparition des imprimantes matricielles et laser.

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.