the computer terminal used to print text. The daisy wheel printer is very similar to a Selectric(tm) typewriter, but the typing element is flat instead of round.
a specific type of impact printer where the type is carried on a wheel
a specific type of printer where the type is molded around the edge of a wheel
A impact printer that uses a rotating plastic wheel with the type characters on it. The wheel spins to line up the correct character to print. Daisywheel printers produced high-quality type, and were common in the 1980s but fell out of use when laser printers became affordable.
A daisy wheel printer is a type of computer printer that produces high-quality type, and was often referred to during the 1980s as a letter-quality printer (in contrast to high-quality dot matrix printers, capable of so-called near letter quality (NLQ) output). There were also, and still are, daisy wheel typewriters, based on the same principle.