At 04:36 PM 10/3/00 -0400, M. Adam Davis wrote:
>There are printers (such as those available from digikey) which have no
>controller or logic, and involve telling the printer which way to move the
>motor(s) and operate the head and other guts.  The controllers are sold
>seperately.
>
>I thought that was what he was talking about when he said parallel...

The ones you're talking about (moving head) are called "shuttle" mechs.
The charachters are printed like a dot-matrix impact printer, only by
"burning" dots with an array of tiny resistors.

Line printers (with all the dots in paralell line) move only the paper.
Printing a full black like takes a pretty impressive gulp of power.

DK has both I think.

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