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ADAM Printer Wheels (Gothic 12, Script 12, Elite 12, Emphasis, Courier 72, Pica, numerous others and colors)

· Printer and Supplies
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No photographs catalogued for ADAM Printer Wheels (Gothic 12, Script 12, Elite 12, Emphasis, Courier 72, Pica, numerous others and colors) yet
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Catalogue IDHW-0444
TypePrinter and Supplies (Printer)
PlatformADAM
StatusReleased
SourceCollectors DB v1.00 Master

Notes

A GROUP ENTRY covering print wheels for the ADAM's daisy wheel printer - all faces, all suppliers.

What a wheel is

  • The typeface itself. Each wheel carries a full set of formed characters on its spokes, and changing the look of a page means swapping the wheel rather than changing anything in software.
  • Courier 72 is documented as available for the ADAM printer; Pica and Elite are the ten and twelve-pitch standards; Gothic, Script and emphasis faces were common across daisy wheel printers of the period.

Why so many

  • Wheels were an ordinary consumable, made by many suppliers, and a wheel that physically fits will generally work whatever name is on it.
  • Colours refer to the wheel bodies rather than the print - the ribbon decides that.