Such printers would have either 9 or 24 pins on the print head.

It purred away, the print head moving fast, back and forth across the paper.

The print heads can also color the material, producing objects with intricate patterns on the surface.

A thermal fax machine, for example, generates heat from electricity in its print head.

Once the printing is complete, the print head is parked.

By this arrangement the print head need not move and the paper movement is the only required movement.

And because of microgravity effects, the regular method for cleaning a print head does not work in space.

The $43 print head is good for 3,000 pages.

The portion of the printer containing the pins is called the print head.

In other models, the print head was tilted against a stationary ribbon.