6. A word processing system according to claim 2 wherein said printing means prints said alphanumeric characters only by impact printing of fixed character symbols.
2. A word processing system comprising: interactive display terminal means for receiving data representative of alphanumeric characters and data representative of graphics, and for displaying alphanumeric characters and graphic characters; means for integrating said alphanumeric character data and said graphic data from said terminal means into a data stream; a character generator, connected to the data stream and responsive to the alphanumeric character data and said graphics data, for generating said alphanumeric characters from said data representative of alphanumeric characters of said data stream and, for generating said graphic characters from the data representative of graphics of said data stream and for providing said alphanumeric characters and said graphic characters to said terminal for display; means, connected to the data stream and responsive to the alphanumeric character data and the graphics data, for selectively applying the data in said data stream representative of said alphanumeric characters to a printing means, and for selectively applying the data in said data stream representative of said graphics to an illustrating means; said printing means, responsive to the selectively applying means, for printing said alphanumeric characters on a document from said data representative of alphanumeric characters; and said illustrating means, responsive to the selectively applying means, means for producing graphic information on said document from said data representative of said graphics in a format different from said graphic characters and said alphanumeric characters.