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An Insight Into the Widely Used Printers

A printer is a peripheral device that makes the human-readable persistent representation of text or graphics on paper. There are various types of printers such as card printers, inkjet printers, dot matrix printers and much more. The commonly used printers are the receipt printers and the label printers.   Label Printer A label printer differs from an ordinary printer as it requires ‘special feeding’ mechanism for handling the rolled stock, fan fold stock and much more. They are widely used for supply chain management, retail price marking, blood, and laboratory specimen and for the management of the fixed assets. The Different Types of Label Printers Based on the Printing Mechanism Various printing mechanisms are involved in the label printers such as thermal, laser or impact printing mechanisms. Some of the commonly used label printers are desktop, industrial, personal label printers or RFID readers. The most common type of receipt printer is the desktop or the card printe