Friday, December 12, 2008

Chain (train) printer

Chain printers (also well-known as train printers) sited the kind on moving bars. As among the drum printer, as the right character accepted by each column, a mallet was fired from after the paper. Compare to drum printers, chain printers had the benefit that the kind chain could typically be altered by the machinist. through selecting chains that had a minor character set (for example, just figures and a little punctuation marks), the printer might print much quicker than if the chain contain the whole upper- and lower-case alphabet, information, and all unique symbols.

This was since, with many more instance of the numbers appear in the chain, the time spend waiting for the right character to "pass by" was really reduced. IBM was most likely the best-known chain printer maker and the IBM 1403 is most likely the most famed example of a chain printer.

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