non-impact printer

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non-impact printer - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  non-impact printer
  
     <printer> Any printer, such as a laser printer, ink-jet printer
     , LED page printer, that prints without striking the
     paper, unlike a dot matrix printer which hits the paper with
     small pins.  Non-impact printers are quieter than impact
     printers, and also faster due the lack of moving parts in the
     print head.
  
     (1995-11-20)