The characters would not be necessarily aligned perfectly horizontally
due to slight timing differences.
-Ian
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Doug Ingraham
<dpi at dustyoldcomputers.com> wrote:
  OK, so somewhat weekly questions.
 Back in the days of high speed line printers there was a characteristic of
 drum style printers that made the output print style quite distinct.  What
 was this characteristic?
 I don't miss the noise of those devices and it seemed like no matter how
 careful you were when changing the ribbon you would smudge your hands.
 Doug Ingraham