friction feed

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friction feed - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  friction feed
  
     <printer> A method some printers and plotters use to move
     paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded
     rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them.
  
     Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the
     rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper.
  
     For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more
     appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in
     the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
  
     (1997-07-09)