daisywheel printer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A printer that operates by striking the page with moulded characters from a rotating circular arrangement, obsolete since the late 1980s.

Word forms

daisywheel printer daisywheel printers

Etymology

From daisy + wheel + printer, from the resemblance to the flower.

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