also: ラインプリンター · ライン・プリンタ · ライン・プリンター
A high-speed printer that prints an entire line of text at once, used mainly in mainframe and legacy computing contexts.
Old mainframe computers were connected to line printers.
Variant with long vowel marker; both spellings are used.
Spelling with interpunct, reflecting the English word boundary.
Variant with interpunct and long vowel marker.
Borrowed from English 'line printer'.