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Peripheral Laser Printers Ink Jet Printers

A printer is a peripheral device that creates a human-readable representation of graphics or text on paper using one of two main mechanisms: black and white laser printers for common documents or color inkjet printers for high-quality photos. The world's first computer printer was invented in the 19th century by Charles Babbage and used metal rods to print characters, while early commercial printers adapted mechanisms from electric typewriters and teletype machines; higher demand then led to new systems specifically designed for computer use like daisy wheel, line, and dot matrix printers.

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Peripheral Laser Printers Ink Jet Printers

A printer is a peripheral device that creates a human-readable representation of graphics or text on paper using one of two main mechanisms: black and white laser printers for common documents or color inkjet printers for high-quality photos. The world's first computer printer was invented in the 19th century by Charles Babbage and used metal rods to print characters, while early commercial printers adapted mechanisms from electric typewriters and teletype machines; higher demand then led to new systems specifically designed for computer use like daisy wheel, line, and dot matrix printers.

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a printer is a peripheral which makes a persistent human-readable representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media.

The two most common printer mechanisms are black


and white laser printers used for common documents, and color ink jet printers which can produce high-quality photograph-quality output.

The world's first computer printer was a 19th-century mechanically driven apparatus invented by Charles Babbage for his difference engine.[1] This system used a series of metal rods with
characters printed on them and stuck a roll of paper against the rods to print the characters. The first commercial printers generally used mechanisms from electric
typewriters and Teletype machines, which operated in a similar fashion. The demand for higher speed led to the development of new systems specifically for computer use. Among the systems
widely used through the 1980s were daisy wheel systems similar to typewriters, line printers that produced similar output but at much higher speed, and dot matrix systems that could mix text
and graphics but produced relatively low-quality output. The plotter was used for those requiring high-quality line art like blueprints.

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