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Computer Interfacing
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Computer Interfacing

by Graham Dixey
June 2014
Beginner to intermediate
208 pages
7h 14m
English
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Printers
Thermal printers
Thermal printers were also mentioned in the list of avail-
able technologies at the beginning of this chapter. There
are some incredibly expensive thermal colour printers,
used like the laser printer for page printing. There is
another type of thermal printer of the dot-matrix type
that requires special paper. Alternatively it may use a
thermal ribbon to print onto normal paper. This type of
printer has little to offer in the face of competition from
the other types of printer and it is doubtful if, as a means
of obtaining hard copy from a computer, much real use
is made of them nowadays. There is, therefore, littl
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