 Many ancient scripts, such as Safaitic and Sabaean, were frequently or typically written boustrophedonically, but in Greek it is found most commonly in archaic inscriptions, becoming less and less popular throughout the Hellenistic period.By analogy, the term may be used in other areas to describe this kind of alternation of motion or writing.For example, it is occasionally used to describe the print head motion of certain dot matrix printers.