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Impact printer that prints one entire line of text at a time
A line printer prints one entire line of text before advancing to another line. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Line printerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Ensuring the quality of 3D printed medicines: Integrating a balance into a pharmaceutical printer for in-line uniformity of mass testingInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: M'FingalThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Pictorial Output with a Line PrinterCited 21 times
- Go sideways: IBM 1403A closely related topic
- Go sideways: IBM 1443A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A high-speed impact printer, most often used by older mainframes, that prints an entire line in a single operation.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Pictorial Output with a Line Printer
Picture generation with a standard line printer
Competition, product line length, and firm survival: evidence from the US printer industry
Line printer modification for better gray level pictures
Reconstruction from computer-generated holograms displayed by a line printer
FACES-A FORTRAN Program for Generating Chernoff-Type Faces on a Line Printer
Instructional graphics packages to be used with a line printer
Computerized path diagrams on a line printer
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
M'FingalJohn Trumbull · 1775
First lines of the practice of physicWilliam Cullen · 1777
Hymns for infant mindsZulfikar Ghose · 1809
Considerations on the measures carrying on with respect to the British colonies in North AmericaMatthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby · 1774
First lines of the practice of physicWilliam Cullen · 1781- 📕The first lines of the practice of surgerySamuel Cooper · 1808
- 📕Specimen book and catalogInland Type Foundry · 1897
Records of the Connecticut Line of the Hayden FamilyJabez Haskell Hayden · 1888
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