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Printer

a hardware output device used to produce a hard copy of a text or image
oriented document. Printers are available in color or black and white. Printer
resolution has improved greatly over the years as costs have continued to fall.
Among the printer types available are the daisy wheel, where the actual printing
mechanism is similar to the IBM Selectric typewriter with its ball and
wheel paper striking device; the dot matrix; the ink jet; the laser printer, de-signed
for high resolution, the high-speed line printer that produces low
quality output; the LCD and LED, both high resolution devices and the thermal
printer such as might be found with older copy or fax machines. Some
printers, such as the line and daisy wheel, are capable of producing text-only
documents. Hewlett Packard, Cannon, and Epson are among the many companies
manufacturing low-cost, high-speed quality printers capable of many functions.