An earlier printer that used a plastic or metal hub with spokes. At the end of each spoke was the carved image of a letter, digit or symbol. In the early 1980s, daisy wheel printers cost as much as $3 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This printing element is designed for ...

While most of the teams in this year’s Red Bull Creation didn’t really pay attention to the theme of ‘reinventing the wheel’, 1.21 Jiggawatts did. Their creation, a giant typewriter that can be ...

While most of the teams in this year’s Red Bull Creation didn’t really pay attention to the theme of ‘reinventing the wheel’, 1.21 Jiggawatts did. Their creation, a giant typewriter that can be ...

Until the 1990s, impact printers far outnumbered their inkjet and laser cousins. An impact printer strikes a molded letter, made of plastic or metal, against paper through an inked ribbon, producing a ...

Impact printers, whether they use dot-matrix technology that uses small pins or daisy-wheel technology that uses a wheel with pre-formed characters like a typewriter, all work by having an element ...

Laser printers are getting better, smaller, faster and slightly less expensive. That makes them more attractive than ever as replacements for the dot matrix or daisy wheel printers now in the ...

For as long as there have been personal computers, computer enthusiasts have been told that when it comes to printers, they can’t have their cake and eat it too. Either you used a dot matrix printer ...

An earlier letter quality printer similar to a daisy wheel printer. Instead of a wheel, characters were formed facing out and around the rim of a thimble-shaped cup. For example, the NEC Spinwriters ...