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PRINTER INDUSTRY DEFINITIONS<br />

APPENDIX<br />

The following categories comprise all electronic printers:<br />

• Serial printers<br />

• Line printers<br />

• Page printers<br />

Serial Printers<br />

Serial printers are printers that use a single printhead or striking mechanism to print<br />

characters sequentially across the page. They include the following:<br />

Line Printers<br />

Serial, impact, fully formed (SIFF) printers<br />

Serial, impact, dot matrix (SIDM) printers<br />

Serial, nonimpact, direct thermal (SNDT) printers<br />

Serial, nonimpact, thermal transfer (SNTT) printers<br />

Serial, nonimpact, ink jet (SNIJ) printers<br />

These are printers with a printhead that covers a full line of the printed page and a<br />

striking mechanism that prints one full line at a time. They include the following:<br />

• Line, impact, fully formed (LIFF) printers<br />

• Line, impact, dot matrix (LIDM) printers<br />

• Line, nonimpact, direct thermal (LNDT) printers<br />

• Line, nonimpact, thermal transfer (LNTT) printers<br />

Page Printers<br />

Page printers can buffer, in part or whole, a page of images received from an<br />

electronic source and then transmit these images to a receiving substrate. They include:<br />

Page, nonimpact, plain paper printers (PNPP) using laser, LED, ionography,<br />

magnetography, or ink jet technology.<br />

© 1989 Dataquest Incorporated October ESAM Newsletter

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