printer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One who makes prints.

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   The operator of a printing press or the owner of a printing business; (metonymic) any printing business.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   a machine that prints

5. 5
   noun

   (computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing

6. 6
   noun

   someone whose occupation is printing

Etymology

From print + -er.