vertical format unit
vertical format unit (VFU) The part of the control electronics of some early printers, governing the vertical format of the document to be printed. Information about the desired format was encoded into a loop of paper tape, or a disk, that moved in synchronism with the paper. In modern printers this has been superseded by a system in which the formatting information is downloaded from the host computer and stored in the printer.
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