Abstract: In the printer pin control circuitry described herein, data bits which request the actuation of respective pins are entered, indirectly, into respective digital equivalent shift registers to provide, for each pin, a respective short term history of actuation requests. A high speed, special purpose digital processor sequentially examines the several shift registers to determine, at successive points in time, whether each pin winding should then be energized or not to produce an effective energizing and damping waveform under a variety of sequential actuation conditions.