High speed printer in electronic computer system

Claim 1

A HIGH SPEED PRINTING SYSTEM, COMPRISING: A PRINT UNIT FOR SELECTIVELY PRINTING IN A PLURALITY OF PRINT POSITIONS ON A PRINT MEDIUM, SAID PRINT UNIT INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF GROUPS OF CHARACTERS, ONE FOR EACH PRINT POSITION, MEANS FOR MOVING THE GROUPS RELATIVE TO THE PRINT MEDIUM TO SUCCESSIVELY ALIGN EACH CHARACTER OF EACH GROUP WITH AN ASSOCIATED PRINT POSITION SUCH THAT LIKE CHARACTERS OF THE GROUPS ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY ALIGNED WITH THE PLURALITY OF PRINT POSITIONS, MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH PRINT POSITION FOR TRANSFERRING ANY SELECTED CHARACTER TO THE PRINT MEDIUM WHEN THE SELECTED CHARACTER IS OPPOSITE THE ASSOCIATED PRINT POSITION; AN ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY HAVING A PLURALITY OF INPUT LEADS AND A PLURALITY OF OUTPUT LEADS, SAID MEMORY BEING ARRANGED TO STORE CODED WORKS INDICATIVE OF CHARCTERS IN A LINE OF INFORMATION TO BE PRINTED SUCH THAT EACH STORAGE LOCATION HAS A DIFFERENT OUTPUT LEAD AND TO SIMULTANEOUSLY COMPARE A CODED INPUT WORD APPLIED TO THE INPUT LEADS WITH EACH STORED WORD TO PRODUCE A DISCRETE OUTPUT SIGNAL ON EACH OUTPUT LEAD FOR WHICH A MATCH OCCURS BETWEEN THE STORED WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE OUTPUT LEAD AND THE CODED INPUT WORD; MEANS FOR GENERATING A BINARY CODED SIGNAL INDICATIVE OF THE CHARACTER NEXT TO BE ALIGNED WITH THE PLURALITY OF PRINT POSITIONS; MEANS FOR APPLYING THE GENERATED BINARY CODED SIGNAL TO THE INPUT LEADS OF THE MEMORY; AND MEANS FOR COUPLING EACH MEMORY OUT PUT LEAD TO A DIFFERENT TRANSFERRING MEANS SUCH THAT THE CHARACTER ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OUTPUT LEAD IS ASSOCIATED WITH A CORRESPONDING PRINT POSITION ON THE PRINT MEDIUM, EACH OF SAID MEANS BEING ARRANGED TO EXCITE THE ASSOCIATED TRANSFERRING MEANS IN RESPONSE TO A DISCRETE OUTPUT SIGNAL.