Improvements in or relating to printers

A printer for use in a text or data communication system has one or more printing elements such as a daisy wheel. The or each printing element has character forming parts which can be actuated to cause in a single strike of the character forming part the imprint of a character on a print receiving medium. The printer is arranged so that one or more of the character forming parts can be actuated to strike successively at the same position or substantially the same position on the print receiving medium to produce the final character. This arrangement allows complex characters of latin based alphabets to be produced by forming an image from a combination of characters provided on the character forming parts of the printing element or elements.