At 12:14 PM 5/23/2004 +0200, Lindy Mayfield wrote:

>Ok, thanks!  The second link is perfect.  Is there a difference between the going-back-and-forth and the one that goes round-and-round?  Because with the round-and-round I see perfectly your analogy with the dot matrix printer.  But with the going back-and-forth one I cannot.

Many shuttle printers print in both directions.
No sense wasting the time to pull the head back without printing.

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