Chapter 21 Inkjet Printers, Impact Printers, and Thermal Printers

This type of a printer uses a type of ink-dispersion printing method and doesn't normally provide the high-quality resolution of laser printers.

This is used by an inkjet printer to print one line at a time of an image with each clean pass.

These are used by inkjet printers to hold different colors of ink for the printer.

This type of printer creates a printed page by using some mechanism that touches the paper. The best known printer of this type is a dot matrix printer, which prints only raw data. While these printers have mostly become obsolete, they are still useful for printing on tractor feeds (a continuous print job for large amounts of data), and can use carbon paper to print multiple copies at the same time.