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Dot Matrix Printer is a type of printers preceding inkjet or laser printers, which uses a set of pins strike against an inked ribbon resulting in characters forming on the underlying paper. The printing quality of dot matrix printers depend on the number of pins from 9, very low, to 48 almost letter quality. These printers are generally fed from a continuous roll of paper and still lend themselves to report printing and long banners. Dot Matrix Printers can print to multi-page forms (that is, carbon copies), something laser and ink-jet printers cannot do.

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