character printer

Questions about character printer

What does character printer mean?

character printer means "a printer that prints a single character at a time".

What is another word for character printer?

Close synonyms include character-at-a-time printer, serial printer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is character printer a common word?

character 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.