printer

[prin-ter] /ˈprɪn tər/
noun
1.
a person or thing that prints, especially a person whose occupation is printing.
2.
Computers. an output device that produces a paper copy of alphanumeric or graphic data.
3.
an instrument that automatically records telegraphic messages by means of a printing mechanism activated by incoming signals.
4.
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.
Origin
1495-1505; print + -er1
Related forms
printerlike, adjective
Examples from the web for printers
  • It was also a means of commercial selfpromotion on the part of writers and printers.
  • Postcard printers have begun blocking a section off where the barcode will be placed.
British Dictionary definitions for printers

printer

/ˈprɪntə/
noun
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
Word Origin and History for printers

printer

n.

c.1500, "person who prints books, etc.," agent noun from print (v.). As a mechanical device from 1859, originally in telegraphy. In the computer sense, from 1946. Printer's bible (c.1702) 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.