Character Printer (Noun)
Meaning
A printer that prints a single character at a time.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The character printer was a relic of the old mainframe era, used only for printing error messages one letter at a time.
- In the early days of computing, the character printer was the primary output device for many systems.
- The system administrator used a character printer to print out long logs of system activity line by line.
- Character printers were notoriously slow for printing large documents, but were still useful for printing short labels.
- The old terminal still worked, but its character printer was worn out, jamming constantly on worn-out keys.