printer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
printing
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From print + -er.
Base: print
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: printers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who makes prints.
pos: noun
examples: Old Japanese colour-prints are printed on a sheet of mulberry-bark paper, and are the product of three different craftsmen: the artist who drew the original design, the block-maker or engraver who transferred the design to the wood, and the printer.
gloss: The operator of a printing press or the owner of a printing business; (metonymic) any printing business.
pos: noun
examples: IMPRINTED at London in Fleteſtrete by Thomas Berthelet, printer to the kynges highnes, the ſeconde of July, the yere of our lorde. M. DXLV. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum ſolum.
The Court doth Declare, as formerly ſo now, That no Apprentices be taken into any Printing-houſe, otherwiſe than according to this Proportion following, (viz.) ever Maſter Printer that is, or hath been Maſter or Upper Warden of his Company, may have three Apprentices at one time and no more, and every Maſter-Printer that is of the Livery of his Company, may have two Apprentices at one time and no more, […]
[…] Pecuniary motives induced the first printers (from the large sums which were usually paid for manuscripts) to sell their works as such; so that printing was, for a period, as much the counterfeit as the substitute for writing, it being a facsimile of the most approved Scribes.
Never one to waste an opportunity, he says now: "The low points? You can read about them in my forthcoming book! It's at the printers now.
gloss: A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.
pos: noun
examples: The use of the Hughes type printer is extending on the main circuits, where speed of transmission is a great object; but it is highly improbable that it will ever be adopted, except on main circuits.
By the use of these keys in conjunction with the other keys, the operator has perfect control over the receiving printer at the distant station.
For long distance messages, reports, etc., the use of the printer telegraph renders a highly satisfactory and efficient service, especially where the line circuits are derived through a composite or phantom circuit without the exclusive use of wires for this circuit. The Union Pacific recently installed a two-channel multiplex automatic printer on a simplexed circuit, thereby eliminating the necessity for at least one additional overland wire, and also speeding up the service and reducing the cost for each message.
In a telegraph system, a multiplex transmission circuit in which the signals transmitted comprise equal-impulse code combinations, a receiving distributor for separating the successive combinations into separate channels, a simplex printer for each channel, and local means including said distributor for generating start and rest impulses for each printer.
Top-quality prints in minutes, at savings up to 80%, are said to be possible with the Satellite printer. Printer is sold by Eugene Dietzgen Co, Chicago, Ill.
Much like a regular printer can print out a picture or text file, these machines can turn a digital 3-D model into a real, tangible object, and they are becoming more and more widespread. All over the world, makerspaces (places where people can gather, share ideas, learn, and use tools like 3-D printers to let their dreams become reality) are opening the doors.
Synonyms: imprint
publisher
publishing house
printseller
printshop
printing shop
printing house
imprimery
Related words: plotter
Derived words: 3D printer
band printer
belt printer
bioprinter
block printer
daisy wheel printer
daisywheel printer
dot matrix printer
impact matrix printer
impact printer
inkjet printer
ink jet printer
job printer
jour printer
laser printer
line printer
microprinter
miniprinter
money printer
network printer
nonprinter
photoprinter
pretty-printer
printer buffer
printerdom
printeress
printer-friendly
printerless
printerlike
printer's apostrophe
printer's devil
printer's devilry
printer's hat
printer's ink
printer's proof
printer's reader
printer's ream
printery
security printer
teleprinter
thermal printer
thermoprinter
three-dimensional printer
ticket printer
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