Sprocket feed
printer
(Or “tractor feed”, “pin feed”) A method some printers use to move paper by rotating wheels with pins or studs (tractors) that engage holes along the sides of the (usually fanfold) paper. A sprocket feed printer does not slip unless the paper jams, but cannot feed standard typing paper or work with a sheet feeder like friction feed.
Some paper for sprocket feed printers has the edge strips with the holes in detachable from the rest of the paper. These strips are known as chad (and other names).
(1997-06-29)
Read Also:
- Sprocket-hole
noun 1. any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
- Sprog
noun (slang) 1. a child; baby 2. (esp in RAF) a recruit
- Sprout
verb (used without object) 1. to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed. 2. (of a seed or plant) to put forth buds or shoots. 3. to develop or grow quickly: a boy awkwardly sprouting into manhood. verb (used with object) 4. to cause to sprout. 5. to remove sprouts from: […]
- Spruance
noun 1. Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- Spruce
noun 1. any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Picea, of the pine family, having short, angular, needle-shaped leaves attached singly around twigs and bearing hanging cones with persistent scales. 2. any of various allied trees, as the Douglas fir and the hemlock spruce. 3. the wood of any such tree. adjective 4. made from […]