stylus printer
- noun
- Archaic
:
impresora de matriz de puntos
- A stylus printer creates printed documents by using tiny wires to strike dots on the paper.
Examples
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Before laser printers became common, stylus printers were popular in banks and businesses.
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The office used a stylus printer for generating large batches of invoices.
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A stylus printer works by forming characters out of tiny dots on the page.
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The stylus printer produced sharp images.
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My stylus printer is very reliable.
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In the 1980s, many companies relied on stylus printers for their cost-effective printing solutions.
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The technician repaired the stylus printer to ensure it was functioning for the upcoming print job.
Synonyms
A printer that makes letters from dots by striking paper with thin metal wires
A machine that prints letters and numbers as small dots using thin wires that hit an ink ribbon
A machine that prints characters and pictures by making patterns of dots
A printer that makes letters and pictures by hitting an ink ribbon against paper
A machine that prints letters one at a time
How Fast
- Archaic
1
4.4
- Archaic
6
3.4
- Archaic
- Archaic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a printer that uses a stylus' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'stylus' (a small pointed tool) with 'printer' (a device that prints). This noun-noun compound follows a common, transparent formation pattern and would be understandable to a B1 learner who already knows both constituent words, despite being a technical term.
Etymology
Stylus printer gets its name from the small pointed tool called a stylus that people used to write on wax tablets. Early machines used many tiny points to hit the paper and make 'dots' that form letters and pictures, so the name means a printer that prints by hitting the paper with points.