17 Feb
2025
17 Feb
'25
5:53 a.m.
On Feb 16, 2025, at 7:38 PM, Van Snyder via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
.... It also
had a thermal printer called "teledotis." It was very fast, so some
called it the Whippet. It electrostatically deposited soot onto special
paper, which was then fused by a heat roller.
I would call that an "electrostatic printer" -- xerographic printer work that
way, depositing plastic soot that is then melted onto the paper. At U of Illinois I used
a printer very much like what you describe, made by Varian. That was a dot matrix line
printer -- a row of pixels across the page at once -- we used for printing music scores.
100 dpi or so if I remember right.
paul