Friday, October 11, 2013

Difference between Serial Printer (Character Printer) and Line Printer

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Serial Printer (Character Printer) and Line Printer: We known broadly the printers are of two types Impact Type and Non-Impact Type. And in Impact types of Printers again printers are of Two Types (1) Serial Printer and Line Printer.

Serial Printer (character printer)
Line Printer
1
These printers are known as character printer because these printers print the data character by character.
These printers can print many character at once
2
Speed of these printers is measured in
CPS (Characters Per Second)
Speed of these printers are measured in LPM (Lines
Per Minute) or LPS (Lines Per Second)
3
These printers are comparatively low cost printers.
High Cost Printers.
4
Used for normal commercial transactions printing.
Used where high volume transactions printing is required like Banks etc.
5
DOT matrix printer is a character printer and it can print any style and size of Characters.
These are direct characters printers and can print only
one style and size of character

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