impact printer

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   a printer that prints by mechanical impacts

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Questions about impact printer

What does impact printer mean?

impact printer means "a printer that prints by mechanical impacts".

Is impact printer a common word?

impact 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.