In modern computing and communications a few control characters, such as carriage return and line feed, have retained their original functions ( although they are often implemented in software rather than activating electromechanical mechanisms to move a physical printer carriage ) but many others are no longer required and are used for other purposes.

The search for a reliable printer mechanism led it to develop a relationship with Brother Industries, Ltd. of Japan, and the sale of Centronics-badged Brother printer mechanisms equipped with a Centronics print head and Centronics electronics.

A business relationship developed when Centronics needed reliable manufacturing of the printer mechanisms — a relationship that would help propel Brother into the printer industry.

Originally, printer mechanisms used mechanical tab stops to indicate where the tabs went.

Controller boards are embedded with firmware to manage the thermal printer mechanisms.

Later, 407 print mechanisms were used in the IBM 1132 line printer, part of the low cost IBM 1130 computer system.

In another cost saving measure, the paper tape equipment was dependent on the keyboard and page printer mechanisms.

Several types of print mechanisms are also used, including laser and impact, but thermal printer mechanisms are probably the most common.

Holden and his newspaper fell out of favor with the state Democratic Party, and he was removed as the state's printer, when he cautiously editorialized against secession in 1860.

However, not much should be read into this price difference as the printing costs for inkjet and laser printers are a great deal higher than for dot matrix printers, and the inkjet / laser printer manufacturers effectively use their monopoly over arbitrarily priced printer cartridges to subsidise the initial cost of the printer itself.

However, the LaserWriter featured AppleTalk support that allowed the printer to be shared among as many as sixteen Macs, meaning that its per-user price could fall to under $ 450, far less expensive than HPs less-advanced model.

The pxa16x delivers strong performance at a mass market price point for cost sensitive consumer and embedded markets such as digital picture frames, E Readers, multifunction printer user interface ( UI ) displays, interactive VoIP phones, IP surveillance cameras, and home control gadgets.

All except the last included a printer in the price.

The price included a mouse for use with the GUI, but did not include a printer.

At $ 669 and up, however, the PCjr cost more than twice as much as the Commodore 64 and the Atari 8-bit family, while inferior to both and the Apple IIe for games ; its price was close to that of the Coleco Adam, but the Adam also included a tape drive, a printer, and software.

Although found guilty of earning millions by fixing the price of paper printer by printer their fine was reduced for co operation with the cartel investigating unit in Bruxelles.

The later LaserWriter laser printer allowed dramatically better output, at a price.

* Pricing the base good at a relatively low price to the complementary good-this approach allows easy entry by consumers ( e. g. consumer printer vs ink jet cartridge )

These programs and a dot matrix printer were included in the price of the PCW, which was £ 399 plus VAT for the base model.

Göteborgs Handels-och Sjöfartstidning, Göteborgs-Posten and Falkenbergs Tidning all hinted that they had been able to buy the printer at a too low price, as Norway was occupied by Germany.

It was a 300-dpi, 8 ppm printer that sold for $ 3, 495 with the price reduced to $ 2, 995 in September 1985, and featured an 8 MHz Motorola 68000 processor and could print in a variety of character fonts.

Retailers predicted a street price of $ 1000 or less, making it the world ’ s first sub -$ 1, 000 laser printer.

According to original subscription agreements on file at the Philosophical Research Society, editions were sold by subscription for $ 75 on a pre-publication basis, but " the price of this edition after delivery by the printer is understood to be One Hundred Dollars.

To what extent the third objective was reached, depends on how one views a price of £ 50, 000 for Pegasus 1 without tape drives, line printer or punched card input and output, which required an hour or more of preventative maintenance by a resident engineer every morning, before a programmer or operator was allowed near it.

A printer is optional ; many photographers still send their images to a professional lab for better results and, in some cases, a better price.

The choice of print technology has a great effect on the cost of the printer and cost of operation, speed, quality and permanence of documents, and noise.

That is, a company may sell a printer at cost, and make profits on the ink cartridge, paper, or some other replacement part.

From an economics viewpoint, there is a clear trade-off between cost per copy and cost of the printer.

However, the cost of implementation was high ; computers output raw PS code that would be interpreted by the printer into a raster image at the printer's natural resolution.

When the laser printer engines themselves cost over a thousand dollars the added cost of PS was marginal.

There were numerous advantages to this approach ; not only did it help eliminate the possibility of different output on screen and printer, but it also provided a powerful graphics system for the computer, and allowed the printers to be " dumb " at a time when the cost of the laser engines was falling.

Newly printed money can be used to purchase goods and services, and to discharge debts, at no cost to the printer.

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The advantage of this technology is that it has the lowest known cost of ownership: ink is transferred by conventional typewriter-style ribbons, and the rest of the printer simply never wears out.

Since the cost of a LaserWriter was several times that of a dot-matrix impact printer, some means to share the printer with several Macs was desired.

The Diablo 630 could produce letter quality output as good as that produced by an IBM Selectric or Selectric-based printer, but at a lower cost.

NeWS started by implementing a PostScript interpreter that runs in a cooperative multitasking fashion, since, unlike PostScript in a printer, NeWS would be displaying a number of PostScript programs at the same time on one screen.

An ODBC driver can be thought of as analogous to a printer or other driver, providing a standard set of functions for the application to use, and implementing DBMS-specific functionality.

As computer power grew, it became possible to host the PS system in the computer rather than the printer.

In a production setting, using PostScript as a display system meant that the host computer could render low-resolution to the screen, higher resolution to the printer, or simply send the PS code to a smart printer for offboard printing.

Nor did PS have any sort of interactivity built in ; for example, supporting hit detection for mouse interactivity obviously did not apply when PS was being used on a printer.

* Multiple execution contexts: Unlike a printer environment where a PS interpreter processes one job at a time, DPS would be used in a number of windows at the same time, each with their own settings ( colors, brush settings, scale, etc .).

These machines could not directly render the PostScript, which presented Adobe with the problem of how to provide a preview image while also including the actual PS version for the printer.

Since a fourth printer port is conflictive with other features on PS / 2 machines, it typically requires special drivers in most environments.

The original implementation of the parallel port card for the IBM PC worked bidirectional, a feature soon dropped until its reappearance many years later in the IBM PS / 2 series, where it could be enabled or disabled for compatibility with applications hardwired not to expect a printer port to be bidirectional.

Designers removed the ADB and PS / 2 ports, replacing them with a USB port and a mini-DIN-8 serial port that allowed users to plug the AlphaSmart directly into a printer.

* RedMon + Ghostscript is an alternative way of producing PS / PDF files through a virtual printer.