The article mentions daisy wheel printers directly, so they must have been available. Daisy wheel printers existed to produce higher quality (text) output than

The article mentions daisy wheel printers directly, so they must have been available. Daisy wheel printers existed to produce higher quality (text) output than what you would get from a dot matrix printer. There were many other types of impact printers that produced full letters (or even full lines of text) in one go, though I don't know how often they were connected to microcomputers.