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printwires, to strike an inked printer ribbon and produce images on paper (see

Figure 26-2). The case that holds the printwires is called a printhead. Using

either 9 or 24 pins, dot-matrix printers treat each page as a picture broken up

into a dot-based raster image. The 9-pin dot-matrix printers are generically

called draft quality, while the 24-pin printers are known as letter quality or

near-letter quality (NLQ). The BIOS for the printer (either built into the

printer or a printer driver) interprets the raster image in the same way a

monitor does, “painting” the image as individual dots. Naturally, the more

pins, the higher the resolution. Figure 26-3 illustrates the components

common to dot-matrix printers. Many dot-matrix printers use continuous-feed

paper with holes on its sides that are engaged by metal sprockets to pull the

paper through—this is known as tractor-feed paper because the sprockets are

reminiscent of the wheels on a tractor.

Figure 26-2 An Epson FX-880+ dot-matrix printer (photo courtesy of Epson

America, Inc.)

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