The father of printing
Johannes Gutenberg is the founder of printers. There is not a lot known about this man but we suspect that he was born in the early 1400s. He was maybe born in Mainz circa. His family supplied the cities bank with metal so that the bank could produce their coined mint. In 1434 he moved to Strasbourg circa. In Strasbourg he was a goldsmith in the daytime but at home after work he was an inventor. He worked in great secrecy and never told anyone. he was working to create movable type (computers) and he was developing a new press printing machine for the corks of wine. Then in 1448 he moved back to Mainz and asked for a loan of the cities wealthiest man. He got the loan and build a the first ever printing shop. Then he printed the famous 42 line bible.
What are impact printers:
Impact printers are a catagory of printers that work by banging a needle against an ink ribbon to make a mark on the paper or a mark on the thing that you are using to put the paper on. These are some examples of impact printers: dot-matrix and daisy wheel.
What are non-impact printers;
Non-imapct printers are printers that do not use a needle or a head to print out something. Non-impact priters either use lasers or ink jets to print out anything. Here are some examples of non-impact printers: ink-jet and laser printers.
Dot matrix printer
The dot matrix printer was invented in 1970 by Robert Howard. It works by hundreds of pins inside the computor hittng the paper and coloring the part of the paper that they hit. Theis goes on until the page is covered with the information that the user printed.
Daisy wheel printer
The daisy wheel printer was invented in 1969 by David. S. Lee. It works by a wheel in the middle of the computer hitting the page with the letters of the alphabit stuck on the end of a stick that is attached to the wheel. The letters are covered in ink and therefore make a mark on the page.
Inkjet printer
The inkjet printer was developed in the mid 1950's by Hawlett-Packard. It works by propelling droplets of ink on to the page that is currently inside of the printer. It it an extremly fast printer that can print a blank page in under ten seconds.
Laser printer
The laser printer was invented in 1969 by the inventor Gary Starkweather. It works by tiny little lasers inside the printer going over the page and technacally wrinting with lasers. This is a very fast printer.
Thermal printer
The thermal printer was invenvented in The the late 1940s by Jack Kilby. It works by the paper going inside of the thermal printer and that paper getting heated up. This paper is called thermal paper. Once the paper is heated up enough it passes over something called the print head. This will pass over the paper and coat the areas that are supposed to be written on and this will then produce an image or writing.
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