In the 1980s there were daisy wheel systems similar to typewriters, line printers that produced similar output but at much higher speed, and dot matrix systems that could mix text and graphics but produced relatively low-quality output.
20 世纪 80 年代，市面上出现了类似于打字机的菊花轮打印机系统、输出效果与打字机相似但速度更快的行式打印机以及可以混合文本和图形一起输出但输出质量较低的点阵式打印机。