Daisy wheel
printer
A printing device used in some electric typewriters and printers, consisting of raised characters fixed at the ends of spokes on a wheel is called daisy wheel printer. In other words, it is an obsolete type of serial impact printer formerly widely used on word-processor systems for producing letters and documents.
The daisy wheel printer was introduced by Diablo Systems Inc.
in 1972 and represented a considerable improvement in speed and reduction in
mechanical complexity compared to other typewriters then used as low-speed
printers.
1)
It is used in order to get the quality of type found on
typewriters.
2)
Daisy wheel
printing was used in electronic typewriters, word processors and
computers from 1972.
3)
It is cheap to
buy and maintain.
Some interesting points of
daisy wheel printer are: -
1)
A daisy wheel is a printing element that, when seen from the side, looks
faintly like the flower of a daisy.
2)
The daisy-wheel printer appeared in 1972, replacing much slower
typewriters that had been used with computers.
3)
While daisy-wheel printers
were relatively slow, they produced print equal in quality to the print of the
best typewriters.
