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APPARATUS FOR PRINTING A MESSAGE REPRESENTED BY SUCCESSIVELY PRESENTED LIQUID CHARACTERS OF DIGITAL INFORMATION COMPRISING (A) DECORDER MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID CHARACTERS OF DIGITAL INFORMATION AND HAVING A PLURALITY OF OUTPUT LINES EACH OF WHICH IS ENERGIZED IN RESPONSE TO A DIFFERENT INPUT CHARACTER OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, (B) A MEMORY MATRIX HAVING A PLURALITY OF MEMORY ELEMENTS ARRANGED IN A PLURALITY OF COLUMNS AND ROWS, (C) MEMORY MATRIX INPUT MEANS COUPLED TO SAID DECODER MEANS OUTPUT LINES FOR CONDITIONING DIFFERENT ONES OF SAID MEMORY ELEMENTS WHICH DESCRIBE THE CHARACTER CORRESPONDING TO AN ENERGIZED ONE OF SAID LINES, (D) A PRINTING DEVICE HAVING A PLURALITY OF ELECTROMAGNECTIC UNITS EACH CORRESPONDING TO A DIFFERENT ONE OF SAID MATRIX ROWS AND EACH INCLUDING A STYLUS FOR FORMING A DOT OF A PATTERN OF DOTS REPRESENTING SAID CHARACTERS, (E) A ROTARY PULSE GENERATOR FOR REPETITIVELY GENERATING SEQUENCES OF ELECTRICAL PULSES CORRESPONDINGLY IN NUMBER AT LEAST TO THE NUMBER OF SAID COLUMNS IN SAID MEMORY MATRIX, (F) A PLURALITY OF GATE CIRCUITS EACH HAVING A PAIR OF INPUTS AND AN OUTPUT, SAID OUTPUT AND ONE OF SAID INPUTS OF DIFFERENT ONES OF SAID GATE CIRCUITS, RESPECTIVELY BEING CONNECTED TO CORRESPONDING ONES OF SAID PRINTING DEVICE UNITS AND SAID MATRIX ROWS, (B) MEANS FOR APPLYING EACH ELECTRICAL PULSE SIMULTANEOUSLY TO THE OTHER OF EACH OF SAID GATE CIRCUIT INPUTS, (H) MEANS FOR APPLYING SAID PULSES TO SAID MEMORY MATRIX FOR SUCCESSIVELY READING OUT SAID MATRIX COLUMN BY COLUMN, INTO SAID GATE CIRCUITS FOR ENABLING THOSE OF SAID GATE CIRCUITS HAVING A CONDITIONED ONE OF SAID ELEMENTS OF SAID MATRIX CONNECTED THERETO, AND (I) MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE LAST OF EACH OF SAID SEQUENCES OF PULSES FOR APPLYING A NEXT SUCCEEDING ONE OF SAID CHARACTERS TO SAID DECORDER MEANS.