10 Differences Between Impact Printers and Non Impact Printers
Differences Between Impact and Non-Impact Printers |
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Impact Printers
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Non-Impact Printers |
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| 1 | It produces print on paper by striking mechanism. | It produces print on paper with a non-striking mechanism |
| 2 | It uses pins, hammers or wheel to strike against an inked ribbon to print on a paper.. | It uses laser, spray of special ink, or heat and pressure to print on paper. |
| 3 | Normally impact printers use continuous paper sheet. | Non-Impact printers normally use individual paper sheets. |
| 4 | Impact printers are normally less expansive. | Non-Impact printers are more expansive. |
| 5 | Print quality of impact printers is lower than those of non impact printers.. | Print quality of Non-Impact printers is higher than those of impact printers. |
| 6 | Impact printers use special inked ribbons to produce print on paper when print head strikes. | Non-Impact printers use toner or cartridge for printing on paper. |
| 7 | Impact printers are low speed printers. They consume a lot of time to print a document. | Non-Impact printers are very fast, they can print many pages per minute. |
| 8 | Impact printers are very noisy because they strike print head. | Non-Impact printers do not make a noise because they do not use striking mechanism in which print head strikes on ribbon and paper etc. |
| 9 | Examples of Impact printers are Dot matrix and daisy wheel printers. | Examples of Non-Impact printers are laser printers and inkjet printers. |
| 10 | Impact printers use old printing technologies. | Non impact printers use latest printing technologies. |
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