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Sinclair ZX Printer

Producer: Sinclair - Category: Printer

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Photo 1: Jbattersby, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Sinclair.zx.thermal.printer.jpg)

Printer, 1981, Sinclair Research. The ZX Printer is a tiny spark printer for the ZX81 and the ZX Spectrum: it prints 32 characters per line on a roll of aluminium-coated paper by burning away the coating with electric sparks from two styli on a rotating belt, and it copies the screen with the COPY command. It was noisy, the paper was fragile and expensive, but at £49.95 it was the cheapest printer ever sold for a home computer.

Years1981 to 1985
Typespark printer on 4" metallised paper
Resolution32 characters per line, 256 dots per line
ConnectionZX81 / Spectrum expansion connector
Price (1981)£49.95

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