bar printer

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   an impact printer that uses a bar to carry the type slugs

   Broaderimpact printer

Questions about bar printer

What does bar printer mean?

bar printer means "an impact printer that uses a bar to carry the type slugs".

Is bar printer a common word?

bar printer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.