chain printer speed?

13 Jun 2006

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 Topic came up on a local newsgroup - anyone know what the typical speed of a
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  chain printer was/is? I can't find any hard
figures online - all the info
 about chain printers seems to just say they were "high speed" and that's
it.
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This question is not easy to answer.
The IBM 1403 printer came in at least 2 versions : a 1000 lpm and a 300 lpm.
However, the effective speed depended on what was being printed, as the
chains could be different. Typically, a chain had more E's then Y's, more
A's then P's, etc. I also recall a numeric-only version, which could do up
to 2000 lpm, and I've heard about (but never seen) a Braille version

Nico

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chain printer speed?