Explore: Print Head

vertically seven dot spacings in the time it took to print one pixel column. 24-pin print heads were able to print at a higher quality and started to offer additional

printers are a type of impact printer that prints using a fixed number of pins or wires and typically use a print head that moves back and forth or in an up-and-down

the ink droplets, which allows for a relatively long distance between print head and substrate, and the very high drop ejection frequency, allowing for

extruder head, and is deposited on the growing work. The print head is moved under computer control to define the printed shape. Usually the head moves in

and taken out of circulation by the USPS in 1999. Manual Set and Rotary Print Head meters were decertified by the USPS in 2008. While more advanced, including

of creating prints using a hand processed technique, rather than a photographic reproduction of a visual artwork which would be printed using an electronic

process which produces a printed image by passing paper with a thermochromic coating, commonly known as thermal paper, over a print head consisting of tiny

the print head could not return from the far right to the beginning of the next line in time to print the next character. Any character printed after

within the print heads of a specialized printer. The thermal-transfer print process utilises three main components: a non-movable print head, a carbon

This saved the time that otherwise would have been needed to return the print head to its starting point. This was sometimes known as 'logic seeking,' and