At 08:36 PM 12/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>a little 'shuttle', spaced 5 characters apart in the same horizontal
>>line. A motor/scroll cam assembly wobbles this backwards and forwards
>>across the paper and moves the paper up one dot line for ever complete
>
>May I ask, why do this when it's probably easier to use 9 vertically
>aligned pins like the rest of the civilized dot matrix world? (Except for
Compare:
o o o o o
to
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
Any difference jump out at you? Yep, the latter uses a lot more vertical
space. In a laptop, that translates into thickness. If you want a skinny
laptop, all your parts have to be thin.
As to five heads versus one, you can print five characters at once. Faster
printing.
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Received on Fri Dec 11 1998 - 02:36:59 GMT