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printer

[prin-ter]

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noun

a person or thing that prints, especially a person whose occupation is printing.

Computers. an output device that produces a paper copy of alphanumeric or graphic data.

an instrument that automatically records telegraphic messages by means of a printing mechanism activated by incoming signals.

Movies. a photographic machine through which either the negative or positive of a master print can be run, together with unexposed film, to make a duplicate.

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Origin:
1495–1505; print + -er¹

Related forms

print·er·like, adjective

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a program code unrelated to the hardware of a computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used

system software used to perform standard operations, such as sorting data for application programs or other system software

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How to share a printer among computers on a home network, even when the equipment doesn't all speak the same operating language.

Just use the ordinary multipurpose printer paper you work with every day.

Printer manufacturers usually specify the printer resolution in dpi, or dots per inch.

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How to share a printer among computers on a home network, even when the equipment doesn't all speak the same operating language.

Just use the ordinary multipurpose printer paper you work with every day.

Printer manufacturers usually specify the printer resolution in dpi, or dots per inch.

Let's say you want to wirelessly print a picture from your mobile phone to a nearby printer.

Unless filling the office printer twice in one day is manual.

Finding the right ink cartridge for your printer can be harder than finding true love.

Wirelessly sharing a printer on a home network is supposed to be easy.

Our whole department shared a printer in the main office.

The actual lifetime of any given print depends on the printer and ink used and the viewing conditions the print experiences.

Now researchers have a printer that outputs silicon chips.

Sure, you knew printer makers were playing you for a fool with overpriced ink cartridges.

Rondthaler was a printer who helped invent phototypesetting.

It then expects the printer to print every character that way until it tells the printer to do something else.

The major technical challenge is that the printer might read, for example, a shade of red that is more orange than it should be.

Use your computer printer to print out these instructions and diagrams on copy paper.

The bus powered peripheral has a detachable printer.

Is this then the time to buy a photo printer for your.

Print the letter in black ink on good-quality white or ivory paper, using a decent laser-jet printer.

When the researchers feed different plastics into the printer in different.

First, you can print to any printer attached to a computer on the same network as your iDevice.

The rules require additional screening on packages from outside the country and ban some printer cartridges.

But you can set up your printer to do a dozen to each school at one time.

Just bring your camera's memory card down to the store and load your photos into the printer.

The easiest way to set up a printer on a wireless home network.

I'd rather enjoy my trip than try to find a printer.

The answer started with a printer used to make color proofs.

Hours later, a solid object will be ready to remove from your printer.

These color proofs are our final look at the pages before they goto the printer.

What to do with a rarely used printer and its clogged ink jets.

So before using a dedicated label printer to create multiple labels, consider the cost of label stock.

Kodak has introduced two all-in-one inkjets that it says can yield lab-quality photos and sip, rather than gulp, printer ink.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to produce (a text, picture, etc.) by applying inked types, plates, blocks, or the like, to paper or other material either by direct pressure or indirectly by offsetting an image onto an intermediate roller.

to reproduce (a design or pattern) by engraving on a plate or block.

to form a design or pattern upon, as by stamping with an engraved plate or block: to print calico.

to cause (a manuscript, text, etc.) to be published in print.

to write in letters like those commonly used in print: Print your name on these forms.

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Computers. to produce (data) in legible alphanumeric or graphic form.

to indent or mark by pressing something into or upon (something).

to produce or fix (an indentation, mark, etc.), as by pressure.

to impress on the mind, memory, etc.

10.

to fingerprint.

11.

to apply (a thing) with pressure so as to leave an indentation, mark, etc.: The horses printed their hoofs on the wet grass.

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Photography. to produce a positive picture from (a negative) by the transmission of light.

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verb (used without object)

13.

to take impressions from type, an engraved plate, etc., as in a press.

14.

to produce by means of a reproduction process: to print in color; to print unevenly.

15.

to make an image by means of ink, chemical action, etc., as type, engraved plates, etc.: This type is too worn to print cleanly.

16.

to write in characters such as are used in print: He'd rather print than use longhand.

17.

to follow the vocation of a printer.

noun

18.

the state of being printed.

19.

printed lettering, especially with reference to character, style, or size: This print is too large for footnotes.

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printed material.

21.

a printed publication, as a newspaper or magazine.

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newsprint.

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a picture, design, or the like, printed from an engraved or otherwise prepared block, plate, etc.

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an indentation, mark, etc., made by the pressure of one body or thing on another.

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something with which an impression is made; a stamp or die.

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a fingerprint.

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Textiles.

a design or pattern on cloth made by dyeing, weaving, or printing with engraved rollers, blocks of wood, stencils, etc.

a cloth so treated.

an article of apparel made of this cloth.

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something that has been subjected to impression, as a pat of butter.

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Photography. a picture, especially a positive made from a negative.

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any reproduced image, as a blueprint.

31.

Movies, Television. a positive copy of a completed film or filmed program ready for showing; release print.

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adjective

32.

of, for, or comprising newspapers and magazines: print media.

Verb phrases

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print in, Photography. burn¹ (def. 45). Also, burn in.

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print out, Computers. to make a printout of.

Idioms

35.

in print,

in printed form; published.

(of a book or the like) still available for purchase from the publisher.

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out of print, (of a book or the like) no longer available for purchase from the publisher.

Origin:
1250–1300; (noun) Middle English prent(e), print(e), prient(e) < Old French priente impression, print, noun use of feminine past participle of preindre to press¹ < Latin premere; (v.) Middle English prenten, derivative of the noun

Related forms

un·print·ed, adjective

well-print·ed, adjective

Can be confused: prince, prints.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

printer (ˈprɪntə)

—n
1.	a person or business engaged in printing
2.	a machine or device that prints
3.	computing an output device for printing results on paper

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Word Origin & History

c.1300, "impression, mark," from O.Fr. preinte "impression," prop. fem. pp. of preindre "to press," from L. premere (see press (v.1)). Sense of "picture or design from a block or plate" is first attested 1662. Meaning "piece of printed cloth" is from 1756. Out of print "no

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longer to be had from the publisher" is from 1674. The verb is attested from c.1340, "to impress with a seal, stamp, or die;" Meaning "to set a mark on any surface (including by writing)" is attested from c.1400. Meaning "to run off on a press" is recorded from 1511 (Caxton, 1474, used enprynte in this sense). In reference to textiles, 1588. The verb in the photography sense is recorded from 1851 (the noun from 1853). Meaning "to write in imitation of typography" is first attested 1837 in "Pickwick Papers":

"He always prints, I know, 'cos he learnt writin' from the large bills in the bookin' offices."

The meaning "to record (someone's) fingerprints" is from 1952. Printer is recorded from 1504; in the computer sense, from 1946. Printer's bible so called from mistaken substitution of printers for princes in Psalm cxix.161, which led to the misreading:

"Printers have persecuted me without a cause."

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Computing Dictionary

printer definition

printer
A peripheral device for producing text and images on paper. There are many different types, broadly grouped into "impact printers" and "non-impact printers".
Compare plotter. See also Braille printer, tree-killer.
(1996-01-13)

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