10 Dec
1998
10 Dec
'98
11:36 a.m.
> The HX20 printer is quite interesting. It's
got 4 print solenoids/pins on
> 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
> movement of the shuttle. The HX20 electronics sends appropriately timed
> pulses to the solenoids to put dots on the paper. It is an impact
> printer, of course.
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
engineering chauvinism, that is)
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