A printer that can produce text but not graphics.
Any printer that prints a complete line at a time, rather than printing one character at a time ( as a dot-matrix or daisy wheel printer does), or one page at a time(as a laser printer does). Line printers are very high-speed printers,and are common in the coroporate environment where they are used with mainframe computers,minicomputers, and networked systems.
A printing device that can simultaneously print several character graphics on hard copy. A line typically consists of 120 characters.
A text formatting term: A printer which prints pages (even graphics) one line at a time, as opposed to a page printer, which prints an entire page at once.
(1) A device that prints a line of characters as a unit. (2) A line-at-a-time printer.
printer that serves as an output device on a computer; prints a whole line of characters at a time
a character special device that may optionally have an interpretation applied to the data
an impact printer that prints an entire line at one time
A device that prints an entire line at a time.
a printer that composes an entire line of characters and prints the line as a unit, rather than a page printer which prints a page at a time
A printer that prints one entire line at a time. Print quality is low compared with a laser printer. Line printers typically use sprocket feed and wide fanfold paper. Line printer speed is usually measured in lines per minute (lpm). 1200 lpm is a good rate for a line printer like a 3205 m5. 66 lines per page is typical, giving 18 pages per minute (ppm). By comparison, a fast laser printer can output 100+ pages per minute. Source: Foldoc: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
A line printer prints the entire line of characters as one unit.
High-speed impact printer that prints an entire line at a time.
A printer that prints a line at a time.
A printer that prints output, one line of characters at a time, as a unit. Output of line printers is in constant-width characters.
The line printer is a form of high speed impact printer in which one line of type is printed at a time. Print speeds of 600 to 1200 lines-per-minute (approximately 10 to 20 pages per minute) were common.