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The first commercial printers generally used mechanisms from [[Typewriter#Electric designs|electric typewriters]] and [[Teletype CorporationTeleprinter|Teletype]] machines. The demand for higher speed led to the development of new systems specifically for computer use. In the 1980s there were [[daisy wheel printing|daisy wheel]] systems similar to typewriters, [[line printer]]s that produced similar output but at much higher speed, and [[Dot matrix printing|dot-matrix]] systems that could mix text and graphics but produced relatively low-quality output. The [[plotter]] was used for those requiring high-quality line art like [[blueprint]]s.
 
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