Daisy wheel printers have a print wheel with each character molding on a
spoke of the wheel. The characters were pressed against a ribbon and to the
paper. Daisy wheel printers were the highest-quality printers of their day. The
best used carbon ribbons consisting of wax-like ink on a plastic ribbon.
The daisy wheel from a
daisy wheel printer
Daisy wheel printers were limited in the number of characters they could
print and could not change typefaces during a print job without stopping the job
and manually changing the wheel.
IBM Selectric
The IBM Selectric typewriter evolved into a computer printer. It used a
typeface on a print ball.
