Mohammed Ashraf
CS
Reg No: 10774
Page 20 of 41

Advantages of Impact printers
Very low consumable costs
Very noisy
Useful for bulk printing due to low cost
There is physical contact with the paper to produce an image
Non-Impact printers
Any printer, such as a laser printer, ink-jet printer, LED page printer,
that prints without striking the paper, unlike a dot matrix printer which
hits the paper with small pins. Non-impact printers are quieter than
impact printers, and also faster due the lack of moving parts in the
print head.
Advantages of Non-Impact printers
Faster than impact printers
They are not noisy
They are of high quality
Supports many fonts and different character size
They are also capable to produce color prints
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Plotter -
Is a printer that interprets commands from a computer to
make line drawings on paper with one or more automated pens. Unlike a
regular printer, the plotter can draw continuous point to point lines
directly from vector graphics files or commands. They were the first
type of printer that could print with color and render graphics.
Plotters
are a specialist type of printer which is able to draw high quality images
on very large pieces of paper, for example 3 foot wide by 10 foot long.
They are used by engineers, architects and map-makers to draw plans
of buildings, diagrams of machines or large scale maps. They can also
be used for many other similar tasks.
Mohammed Ashraf
CS
Reg No: 10774
Page 21 of 41

Projector - Is an output device that can take images generated by acomputer and reproduce them on a large flat surface? Uses light and

