serial printer

Thân thiện

A serial printer slowly prints a long document line by line.

Definition

Noun: A serial printer is a type of computer printer that creates text or images by printing one character at a time in a sequential manner. This contrasts with printers that print entire lines or pages at once.

Usage

The term is used to describe a specific, older class of printing hardware. It is a technical term. - The office still used a noisy serial printer for printing invoices. - Early personal computers were often connected to serial printers like the dot-matrix type.

Advanced Usage

• Historical Context: Serial printers, such as daisy-wheel and early dot-matrix models, were common before the widespread adoption of laser and inkjet printers. They are characterized by their sequential printing mechanism.
• Technical Specification: In computing, a "serial printer" also specifically refers to a printer connected via a serial communication port (e.g., RS-232), as opposed to a parallel port. This connection method contributes to the sequential data transfer and printing.

Variants and Related Words

• Character printer: Another term for a serial printer, emphasizing the single-character printing method.
• Dot-matrix printer: A common type of serial printer that forms characters from a pattern of dots.
• Daisy-wheel printer: A type of serial printer that uses a wheel with pre-formed characters.

Synonyms

• Character printer
• Sequential printer

Antonyms

• Line printer (prints an entire line at once)
• Page printer (e.g., laser printer, which processes and prints an entire page at a time)

Học thuật

Noun

1. a printer that prints a single character at a time

Từ đồng nghĩa

• character printer
• character-at-a-time printer