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Appendix B. A Quick Look at Line Matrix Printing
Character Formation
The InfoPrint 6500 is an impact printer: it creates characters by printing ink dots
on paper. Dots overlap to produce a solid-appearing character of uniform density.
The dots are made by an assembly of steel hammers mounted on a rapidly
oscillating shuttle. The hammers strike the paper through a moving ink ribbon.
The dot patterns of characters are mapped in printer memory on invisible matrices,
as shown in Figure 72.
Figure 72. Typical Character Formation
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