Brother CE-550 is a electronic typewriter that was produced in 1988 by Brother Industries Corpotation in Japan. This typewriter is one of the earlier electronic typewriters to be produced at the time, but still the keyboard feels similar to the one you can find on a modern day’s computer keyboard.

Comparing to later electronic typewriters of 1990s, for example, this typewriter lacks a screen that could’ve shown a text before printing and writes just like a typewriter would- right as you press on the key. However, some text editing options still exist- you can make your text bold, increase distance between letters, change intervals between rows as well as remove symbols or even whole words with a speciall take-off tape that removes the carbon tape used by this typewriter from the paper completely.

Your font is placed on a special wheel made out of plastic. From it’s center, plastic stripes come out that are attached to the array of different symbols that together create a font used by a typewriter. Exactly these symbols create the imprint during the operation of a typewriter. From the terminology standpoint it is called “a daisywheel” as it actially looks similar to a flower with all the symbols resembling the petals.