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Line printers prints a line at a time while character printers prints a character at a time.Line printer is faster than character printer.Line printers are expensive than character printers.Line printers are disigned for heavy printing applications and can print continuously for a few hours while character printers cannot be used continuously for more than one hour. Line printers are called "heavy duty" Printers while character printer are called "light duty " printers.
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Line printers print a whole line of text at a time, while character printers print one character at a time. Line printers are typically faster and used for bulk printing, while character printers are slower but more versatile for printing different fonts and graphics.
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What are examples of line printer?
the character-at-a-time printers are too slow; therefore, these users need line-at-a-time printers. Line printers, or line-at-a-time printers, use special mechanism that can print a whole line at once; they can typically print the range of 1,200 to 6,000 lines per minute.
What is difference between text files in windows and UNIX?
Both platforms are ASCII platforms, but the difference is the line termination character. In Windows, there is a two character sequence to denote the end of the line (CR/LF sequence, 0D0A) For Unix, the line termination character is the newline character (0A), to denote the end of the text line.
What is the difference between a line and a line segment?
Yes there is a large difference between the two. A line has no end and a line segment ends.
What are two types of printers?
Dot-matrix printers and Line printers.
What is the difference between a trend line and a line of best fit and how are they useful in analyzing data?
What is the difference between a trend line and a line of best fit
Thermal printer is line printer or not?
No, thermal and line printers are two different things. "Line" printers are referring to a form of "Dot-Matrix" printers. "Thermal" printers burn a special paper to form characters and symbols.
Do wireless printers need a phone line?
No, wireless printers do not need a phone line. Wireless printers can be purchased at any large retail stores such as Walmart.Wireless printers do not need a phone line connected to it as long as you have WiFi.
The difference between a tanget and a straight line?
its difference
What is the difference between parallel and perpendicular line on rectangle?
The difference between a perpendicular line and a parallel line is that a perpendicular line crosses or joins, while a parallel line doesn't touch at all.
What is the difference between single line diagram and one line diagram?
There is no difference...same thing
What is the difference between a Diagonal line and an oblique line?
none
What is the difference between a point and a line and a plane?
explain the differences between a point and a line and a plant
