Dot Matrix Printer head Mechanism and full details

•Can produce sheets of plain text very quickly

•Used to print to multi-sheet pages

•Printing on wide-sheet paper

•Print head strikes inked ribbon

•Speed measured in characters per second (CPS)

•Print head Mechanism

–which contains a cluster (or matrix) of short pins arranged in one or more columns.

•Printer can push any of the pins out in any combination.

•By pushing out pins in various combinations, the print head can create alphanumeric characters

•Forms a character by creating a series of dots.

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