Dot Matrix Printer

The dot matrix printers are a type of printer that develops characters and illustrate it by striking pins against an ink ribbon in order to print closely spaced dots in the appropriate shape. Dot matrix printers can print to multi-page forms. Dot matrix printers are having two important characteristics that include speed which is given in characters per second (cps). The speed might get varied from about 50 to over 500 cps. Depending on the quality of print desire, most of the dot matrix printers offer different speeds. Another characteristic is the quality of print. The quality is determined by the number of pins. It might get varied from 9 to 24. The best dot matrix printers that are of 24 pins might produce near letter-quality type. A dot matrix printer might use plain paper, NCR paper or thermal paper, and also several copies of a document that can be made at the same time. Most dot matrix printers print bidirectional.