serial printer
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)
Noun
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a printer that prints a single character at a time
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