The daisy wheel is considered to be so named because of its resemblance to the daisy flower.
In use a servo motor rotates the daisy wheel to position the required character between the hammer and the ribbon.
Different typefaces and sizes can be used by replacing the daisy wheel.
By rotating the daisy wheel, different characters are selected for printing.
If several people have to share a daisy wheel it's even worse.
On a per-user basis, that can eliminate the price advantage of daisy wheels and dot matrix printers.
The daisy wheel spins out 36 characters a second, the dot-matrix printhead 200.
The machine features a wheel with raised characters, similar to a daisy wheel.
Something called a sixteen-hundred, with a daisy wheel.
This was popular enough that special daisy wheels were made with a reinforced period (.)
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