character printer

Printers which create the whole character in one strike rather than from individual dots are sometimes called 'character printers'.

Character printers, such as daisy wheel printers, can handle only plain text data or rather simple point plots.

The speed of early printers was measured in units of characters per second (cps) for character printers, or lines per minute (lpm) for line printers.

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO So Harrington put the programs on tape acceptable to his own computer and the Russian character printer began to spew out yards of Russian text and international figures.