Sometimes called continuous feed paper or tractor feed paper, fanfold paper is specially manufactured paper for use with a continuous feed printer. Its pages are attached by perforated folds and separated by tearing after the pages are printed.

Fanfold paper is used with old dot matrix printers and is still used today. The picture is an example of a dot matrix printer with fanfolding paper.

The discarded paper edges are called snaf.

Pin feed, Printer terms, Single sheet

Dot matrix printers mostly disappeared in the 1990s when inkjet printers and laser printers became cheaper and more available.

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