A printer that uses hammers and a ribbon to form images from dots ... while 24-pin heads produce typewriter quality output. Speeds range from 200 to 400 characters per second (cps), which is ...

These workhorses are now reaching middle age, and as you’d expect, their ribbons are a little worse for wear after all this time. Replacements are cheap enough for the most common printers ...

An early line printer that used type slugs linked together in a chain ... the corresponding hammer hit the paper into the ribbon and onto the character in the chain. Chain and train printers ...