What is a Character Printer?
Character printers print one character at a time and hence they are slow printers. They are capable of printing at the rate of 30 to 300 characters per second aka CPS. The advantage of character printer is that they are low cost and are mainly used with personal computers. The disadvantage is, it is low speed and makes lot of noise while printing. Character printers were very popular in the past but these days are being replaces with inkjet printers which have good printing quality, make less nose while printing, have fast printing speed and can produce multicolor printout. Character printers are two types, dot matrix printers and daisy wheel printers.
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