Apple Daisy Wheel Printer
So, you know how when you write or draw on paper, you use a pen or pencil that leaves ink or graphite on it, right? Well, with a printer, it's kind of like that, except it uses a special kind of ink called "ink ribbon" to make words and pictures on paper.
An Apple Daisy Wheel Printer is a type of printer that was made a long time ago (in the 1980s) by a company called Apple. It looks like a big, bulky box with a place for paper to go in and a place for ink ribbon to go in.
When you want to print something with an Apple Daisy Wheel Printer, you have to first type out what you want to print on a special machine called a computer. Then, you take the piece of paper you want to print on and put it into the printer.
The printer then takes the ink ribbon and wraps it around a special wheel with little metal arms called a "daisy wheel." The daisy wheel spins around really fast and stops at just the right letter or symbol you want to print.
Then, the printer presses the ink ribbon onto the paper really hard, so that the ink transfers from the ribbon onto the paper in the shape of the letter or symbol on the daisy wheel. It does this for every letter or symbol you typed on the computer until your whole message is printed out on the paper!
Nowadays, we have much faster and easier ways to print things using computers and modern printers, but the Apple Daisy Wheel Printer was a really cool invention back then!
An Apple Daisy Wheel Printer is a type of printer that was made a long time ago (in the 1980s) by a company called Apple. It looks like a big, bulky box with a place for paper to go in and a place for ink ribbon to go in.
When you want to print something with an Apple Daisy Wheel Printer, you have to first type out what you want to print on a special machine called a computer. Then, you take the piece of paper you want to print on and put it into the printer.
The printer then takes the ink ribbon and wraps it around a special wheel with little metal arms called a "daisy wheel." The daisy wheel spins around really fast and stops at just the right letter or symbol you want to print.
Then, the printer presses the ink ribbon onto the paper really hard, so that the ink transfers from the ribbon onto the paper in the shape of the letter or symbol on the daisy wheel. It does this for every letter or symbol you typed on the computer until your whole message is printed out on the paper!
Nowadays, we have much faster and easier ways to print things using computers and modern printers, but the Apple Daisy Wheel Printer was a really cool invention back then!