Definition of line printer in English:

noun

• A machine that prints output from a computer a line at a time rather than character by character.

  Example sentences

  • ‘Remember, this was all at a time when computing to the rest of us meant running a few thousand punched cards through a mainframe and waiting to get your output the next day from the line printer.’
  • ‘A line printer provided high-speed printout to permit rapid program evaluation and change, and evaluation of test missions.’
  • ‘When the SLAC Library was started, the Stanford University computing center was a little building with keypunch machines and a line printer.’