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The system used a small wheel with each letter printed on it in raised metal or plastic. The printer turns the wheel to line up the proper letter under a single pawl which then strikes the back of the letter and drives it into the paper. In many respects the daisy wheel is similar to a standard Typewriter in the way it forms its letters on the page, differing only in the details of the mechanism (daisy wheel vs Typebar s or the typeball used on IBM Selectric typewriters). Daisy wheel printers were fairly common in the 1980s , but were always less popular than Dot Matrix Printer s (ballistic wire printers) due to the latter's ability to print graphics and different fonts. With the introduction of high quality Laser Printer s and Inkjet Printer s in the later 1980s daisy wheel systems quickly disappeared but for the small remaining Typewriter market. SEE ALSO |
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