tractor feed

It had a tractor feed for loading fan-fold paper.

It has tractor feed holes on detachable perforated strips on both sides.

As a result of the change, power and serial interface ports were moved from the legs to either ends of the tractor feed housing.

"Shields, life support... everything but the tractor feed!"

Tractor feed for label printing.

Tractor feed, baby.

Like most IBM printers of the era, the 1403 used fan-folded paper with perforated edges for tractor feeding.

The high-quality Brother printers offer draft and NLQ speeds, proportional spacing and tractor feed.

It does not have a tractor feed to hold edge-punched, continuous-form computer paper, but it can use such paper if you get it in absolutely straight, or pause to straighten it.

Full-size dot-matrix impact printers are still used to print multi-part stationery, for example at bank tellers and auto repair shops, and other applications where use of tractor feed paper is desirable such as data logging and aviation.

Due to the extremely precise alignment required for dot alignment between NLQ passes, typically the paper needed to be held somewhat taut in the tractor feed sprockets, and the continuous paper stack must perfectly aligned behind or below the printer.