We should know about the Printer and Its type .

The printer is so useful peripheral device that presents your from soft copy to hard copy. It is also known as the output device, that works on given instruction by the user, the process then gives the results known as output

So we should know which printer solves our purpose, for that there are many types of printer for the different printing work.

The printer has two types first is known as impact printers and the second one is known as non-impact printers.

IMPACT Printer: Impact printers were the first types of printers that were used for printing documents but has become redundant
IMPACT printer that works like the typewriter. It uses by striking a grid of pin with the help of a ribbon. It makes noise while it uses for printing.
 Common examples of an impact printer that includes the daisy-wheel printers, dot matrix printer, and ball printers. 

Non-Impact Printer: Non-impact printer is the best example that is in use nowadays. It does not make any noise. Its work silently cause it does not make physical contact with cartridge, print head, and papers. It is easy to use. It helps us to make the print of graphics as well as document it does not longer time to make it print comparison to impact printers. It covers the laser printer, inkjet printer, and thermal printers also.

The printer is categorized into five types on the basis of their quality and use.

• Dot Matrix Printer : Dot matrix is the oldest established type of the printer.
  
  This is still running in the market. It makes noise while printing the data, In this type of printer there is a print head that has many pins of matrix and each pin that strike the paper with the help of a ribbon, which creates many dots to be words. This printer takes time to print a document , its generates noise.

• Inkjet Printer: An inkjet printer is a computer peripheral device that produces hard copy by spraying the ink onto paper.
  
  By spraying the ink can be print documents and graphics with the 600 dpi.Its also known as the Non-Impact Printer. It creates the character by the combinations of the many dots. Color inkjet printers have the four nozzles that has cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black). It is also known as CMYK Printer. There was an issue with this printer if you don't use the printer for a few days its jam the ink on the nozzle by this reason the whole will closed printer unable to print any graphics or documents. This issue is known as Ink clogging .This printer always prints the document or graphics with the resolution of 300 DPI(Dots per inch)
• Laser Printer:Laser Printer is similar to photo copy machine.
  
  Laser Printer print documents from 300 dpi to 600 DPI.Color printer prints with high quality of images with the help of a unique type of toner.This printer is costly and heavy in size but having the high speed of printing images and Documents. It can print the output on paper as well plastic sheet. 
• Thermal Printer:Thermal Printer is use to print the receipt of the cash register, receipt of ATM transactions. Nowdays this is also print by the inkjet
  
  printers.thermal printer uses a unique type of the thermal paper that is coated of chemical, Printing method is dependent  chemical heats then spread the color on paper..Nowdays the printer is also available with the Bluetooth connectivity