character printer

character printer definition - computer

A printer that prints one character at a time. The typical character printer is the dot matrix printer. See printer.


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The Character Printer

The desktop dot matrix printer is the typical character printer. It is also called a "serial dot matrix printer" or "serial matrix printer."






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