Computer Hardware Terms, Glossary and Dictionary

Impact priter is a type of printers that work by banging a head or needle against an ink ribbon to make a mark on the paper. This includes dot-matrix printers, daisy-wheel printers, and line printers. In contrast, laser and ink-jet printers are nonimpact printers. Though impact printers are not used much as computer printers but they are still useful in cases where multi-layer forms are printed at the same time.

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