Daisy Systems Holland BV was a Dutch manufacturer of daisy-wheel printers (hence the name), later expanded into other printer technologies: inkjet,

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. Headquartered in Wijchen, it was acquired in 1987 from its

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, by Jan Cornelisse, the then managing director of Daisy Systems, who became its majority shareholder. In 1980s it claimed to be the largest specialist printer company in

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Printer models

* AES 7300 (note this is a WP system, not a model of daisywheel printer) * Daisy Systems M20, M45, M50

References

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