Dictionary

printer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

[ˈpʰɹɪɾ̃ɚ] (General-American)
/ˈpɹɪntɚ/ (General-American)
/ˈpɹɪntə(ɹ)/ (Received-Pronunciation)
[ˈpʰɹɪnɚ] (General-American)
(Australia) audio
/ˈpɹɪnɚ/ (General-American, US) in fast speech

Etymology

From print + -er.

Meanings

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. 1922, Basil Stewart, “How Colour-prints were Produced”, in Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-prints: A Collector’s Guide to All the Subjects Illustrated including an Exhaustive Account of the Chushingura and other Famous Plays, together with a Causerie on the Japanese Theater, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton, →OCLC; republished as A Guide to Japanese Prints and Their Subject Matter, New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1979, →ISBN, page 8:
The operator of a printing press or the owner of a printing business; (metonymic) any printing business.
- […] 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. 1824, J[ohn] Johnson, “The Origin, Rise, and Progress of the Typographic Art”, in Typographia, or The Printers’ Instructor: Including an Account of the Origin of Printing, with Biographical Notices of the Printers of England, from Caxton to the Close of the Sixteenth Century: A Series of Ancient and Modern Alphabets, and Domesday Characters: Together with an Elucidation of Every Subject Connected with the Art, volume I, London: Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Paternoster Row, London, →OCLC, pages 4–5:
- 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, […] 1637 July 11, John Rushworth, “[Appendix.] A Decree of Star-Chamber Concerning Printing, Made the Eleventh Day of July Last Past, 1637”, in Historical Collections. The Second Volume of the Second Part, Containing the Principal Matters which Happened from March 26. 1639, until the Summoning of a Parliament, which Met at Westminster, April 13, 1640. With an Account of the Proceedings of that Parliament; and the Transactions and Affairs from that Time, until the Meeting of Another Parliament, November the 3d following. With Some Remarkable Passages therein during the First Six Months. Impartially Related, and Disposed within Annals. Setting forth only Matter of Fact in Order of Time, without Observation or Reflection, London: Printed by M. Wotton at the Three Pigeons against the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, and G. Conyers at the Golden Ring on Ludgate-Hill, published 1686, →OCLC, item XIX, pages 311–312:
- 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. 1545 July 2, Thomas Elyot, A Preservative agaynste Deth, Imprinted at London in Fletestrete: By Thomas Berthelet, printer to the kynges highnes, →OCLC, colophon:
- 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. 2021 November 3, Adrian Shooter talks to Paul Clifton, “A lifetime of railway achievements”, in RAIL, number 943, page 34:
A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.
- 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. 1959 September, “Compact Printer”, in Air Conditioning, Heating and Ventilating, volume 56, New York, N.Y.: Industrial Press, →OCLC, page 103:
- 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. 1903, “The Rowland Multiplex Printing Telegraph System”, in Telegraph Age. A Semi-monthly Journal Devoted to Telegraphy, volume XX, New York, N.Y.: J[ohn] B. Taltavall, →OCLC, page 461, column 1:
- 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. 2015, Nicki Peter Petrikowski, “Introduction”, in Getting the Most out of Makerspaces to Create with 3-D Printers (Makerspaces series), New York, N.Y.: Rosen Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:
- 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. 1872 February 24, “Telegraph Instruments”, in The Mechanics’ Magazine and Journal of Science, Arts, and Manufactures, volume XCVI, London: Mechanics' Magazine Offices, 166, Fleet Street, and 85, Gracechurch Street, E.C., →OCLC, page 172, column 1:
- 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. 1924, Railway Signaling and Communications, volume 17, number 1, Bristol, Conn.: Simmons-Boardman Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 1:
- 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. 1928 August 18, Robert F. Dirkes, Vernon R. Kimball, James W. Long, Operating Simplex Printers in a Multiplex System, US Patent US1802240A, claim 3, page 5, column 1:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
printers	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (214)

ru при́нтер (computing: device used to print text or images) · be друка́рка (operator of a printing press) · es impresor (operator of a printing press) · mi pūreretā (computing: device used to print text or images) · vo dabüköm (computing: device used to print text or images) · ru печа́тник (operator of a printing press) · ga clóire (computing: device used to print text or images) · ca impressora (one who makes prints) · sk tiskarka (operator of a printing press) · bn প্রিন্টার (computing: device used to print text or images) · alt басмачы (operator of a printing press) · eo presilo (computing: device used to print text or images) · pl drukarz (operator of a printing press) · sl tiskalnik (computing: device used to print text or images) · sv tryckerska (operator of a printing press) · io imprimilo (computing: device used to print text or images) · uk друка́рка (one who makes prints) · mk печатарка (operator of a printing press) · fi printteri (computing: device used to print text or images) · ro imprimantă (computing: device used to print text or images) · id pencetak (operator of a printing press) · sv tryckerska (one who makes prints) · mi kaitāā (one who makes prints) · lt spausdintuvas (computing: device used to print text or images) · ja 印刷工 (operator of a printing press) · kk принтер (computing: device used to print text or images) · ky принтер (computing: device used to print text or images) · th เครื่องพิมพ์ (computing: device used to print text or images) · is prentari (computing: device used to print text or images) · alt принтер (computing: device used to print text or images) · de Drucker (operator of a printing press) · hsb čišćer (operator of a printing press) · tg чопгар (computing: device used to print text or images) · pt impressor (operator of a printing press) · cmn 打印機 /打印机 (computing: device used to print text or images) · it stampante (computing: device used to print text or images) · ko 프린터 (computing: device used to print text or images) · sv typograf (one who makes prints) · kl naqiterisoq (one who makes prints) · ru типо́граф (operator of a printing press) · prs پِرِنْتَر (computing: device used to print text or images) · gd clò-bhualadair (operator of a printing press) · sv tryckare (operator of a printing press) · cy printiwr (operator of a printing press) · sk tiskar (operator of a printing press) · cy argraffwr (one who makes prints) · afb طابْعة (computing: device used to print text or images) · mi perēhi (one who makes prints) · fa-ira پِرینْتِر (computing: device used to print text or images) · nl drukker (one who makes prints) · lt printeris (computing: device used to print text or images) · gl impresora (computing: device used to print text or images) · id printer (computing: device used to print text or images) · cs tiskař (operator of a printing press) · ar طَابِعَة (computing: device used to print text or images) · km ម៉ាស៊ីនបោះពុម្ព (computing: device used to print text or images) · lv printeris (computing: device used to print text or images) · mi kaiperēhi (operator of a printing press) · id pencetak (computing: device used to print text or images) · hu nyomdász (one who makes prints) · sh писач (computing: device used to print text or images) · yi דרוקער (one who makes prints) · az printer (computing: device used to print text or images) · pt impressora (computing: device used to print text or images) · lb Drécker (computing: device used to print text or images) · ota باصمهجی (operator of a printing press) · nb trykker (operator of a printing press) · fo prentari (one who makes prints) · nrf printeu (computing: device used to print text or images) · de Drucker (one who makes prints) · pt impressor (one who makes prints) · uk друка́р (one who makes prints) · ru печа́тница (operator of a printing press) · hy տպիչ (computing: device used to print text or images) · ur طابِعَہ (computing: device used to print text or images) · he מַדְפֶּסֶת (computing: device used to print text or images) · dsb śišćak (computing: device used to print text or images) · vi máy in (computing: device used to print text or images) · ga clódóir (operator of a printing press) · oc imprimanta (computing: device used to print text or images) · lb Drécker (one who makes prints) · lo ເຄື່ອງພິມ (computing: device used to print text or images) · de Druckerin (one who makes prints) · fr imprimeur (one who makes prints) · mk печатар (computing: device used to print text or images) · sq printer (computing: device used to print text or images) · ms pencetak (computing: device used to print text or images) · tr yazıcı (computing: device used to print text or images) · ko 인쇄공 (operator of a printing press) · bg при́нтер (computing: device used to print text or images) · aii ܛܵܒ݂ܘܿܥܵܐ (one who makes prints) · sh pisač (computing: device used to print text or images) · id pencetak (one who makes prints) · af drukker (operator of a printing press) · fr imprimeuse (one who makes prints) · aii ܛܵܒ݂ܘܿܥܬܵܐ (one who makes prints) · mk печатар (one who makes prints) · cmn 印刷者 (one who makes prints) · aii ܛܵܒ݂ܘܿܥܬܵܐ (operator of a printing press) · kk басып шығарғыш (computing: device used to print text or images) · fr imprimeuse (operator of a printing press) · ja 印刷者 (one who makes prints) · tr matbaacı (operator of a printing press) · alt басмачы (one who makes prints) · mn бичиглүүр (computing: device used to print text or images) · ro tipograf (operator of a printing press) · gl impresor (one who makes prints) · cmn 印刷工 (operator of a printing press) · be друка́р (operator of a printing press) · ota باصمهجی (one who makes prints) · cy argraffydd (computing: device used to print text or images) · hi प्रिंटर (computing: device used to print text or images) · fr imprimante (computing: device used to print text or images) · es impresora (computing: device used to print text or images) · tk printer (computing: device used to print text or images) · az çap maşını (computing: device used to print text or images) · dsb śišćaŕ (operator of a printing press) · ru печа́тник (one who makes prints) · ja プリンター (computing: device used to print text or images) · io imprimanto (one who makes prints) · mk печатар (operator of a printing press) · hu nyomdász (operator of a printing press) · fa-ira چاپْگَر (computing: device used to print text or images) · tg принтер (computing: device used to print text or images) · el τυπογράφος (one who makes prints) · ja 印刷機 (computing: device used to print text or images) · kmr çaper (computing: device used to print text or images) · gl impresor (operator of a printing press) · eo tipografo (operator of a printing press) · yi דרוקער (operator of a printing press) · hsb čišćak (computing: device used to print text or images) · uk друка́рка (operator of a printing press) · da trykker (one who makes prints) · pl drukarka (operator of a printing press) · af drukker (one who makes prints) · ug پرىنتېر (computing: device used to print text or images) · el τυπογράφος (operator of a printing press) · io imprimisto (operator of a printing press) · pl drukarka (one who makes prints) · fi tulostaja (one who makes prints) · my ပုံနှိပ်စက် (computing: device used to print text or images) · sv tryckare (one who makes prints) · fi painaja (operator of a printing press) · uk друка́р (operator of a printing press) · nb skriver (computing: device used to print text or images) · sh štàmpāč (computing: device used to print text or images) · ca impressora (computing: device used to print text or images) · pl drukarka (computing: device used to print text or images) · de Drucker (computing: device used to print text or images) · mi pūreretā (one who makes prints) · mi mīhini tā (computing: device used to print text or images) · aii ܛܵܒ݂ܘܿܥܵܐ (operator of a printing press) · pt gráfico (operator of a printing press) · ur طابِع (operator of a printing press) · ru типо́граф (one who makes prints) · ur پِرِنْٹَر (computing: device used to print text or images) · fr imprimeur (operator of a printing press) · tl manlilimbag (operator of a printing press) · uk при́нтер (computing: device used to print text or images) · crh printer (computing: device used to print text or images) · cy argraffwr (operator of a printing press) · mk печатач (computing: device used to print text or images) · aii ܛܵܒ݂ܘܿܥܬܵܐ (computing: device used to print text or images) · xal кевлүр (computing: device used to print text or images) · cs tiskárna (computing: device used to print text or images) · el εκτυπωτής (computing: device used to print text or images) · fi painaja (one who makes prints) · mk печатач (operator of a printing press) · lo ຈັກພິມ (computing: device used to print text or images) · nl printer (computing: device used to print text or images) · mi kaiperēhiā (one who makes prints) · sk sadzač (operator of a printing press) · bg печата́рка (operator of a printing press) · nl drukker (operator of a printing press) · is prentari (operator of a printing press) · eu inprimagailu (computing: device used to print text or images) · yi דרוקער (computing: device used to print text or images) · nrf împrînmeux (operator of a printing press) · ka პრინტერი (computing: device used to print text or images) · et printer (computing: device used to print text or images) · mk печатач (one who makes prints) · ko 인쇄자 (one who makes prints) · sv skrivare (computing: device used to print text or images) · be пры́нтар (computing: device used to print text or images) · pl drukarz (one who makes prints) · ro tipograf (one who makes prints) · fo prentari (computing: device used to print text or images) · hu nyomtató (computing: device used to print text or images) · be пры́нтэр (computing: device used to print text or images) · mn принтер (computing: device used to print text or images) · ug خەتباسقۇ (computing: device used to print text or images) · be друка́р (one who makes prints) · mn хэвлүүр (computing: device used to print text or images) · sh prìnter (computing: device used to print text or images) · bg печата́р (operator of a printing press) · cmn 印表機 /印表机 (computing: device used to print text or images) · mk печатачка (operator of a printing press) · sh прѝнтер (computing: device used to print text or images) · de Druckerin (operator of a printing press) · sk tlačiareň (computing: device used to print text or images) · ca impressor (one who makes prints) · da printer (computing: device used to print text or images) · af rekenaardrukker (computing: device used to print text or images) · be друка́рка (one who makes prints) · es impresor (one who makes prints) · ga printéir (computing: device used to print text or images) · sk tlač (computing: device used to print text or images) · fo prentari (operator of a printing press) · fi vedostaja (one who makes prints) · sv tryckeriägare (operator of a printing press) · sh шта̀мпа̄ч (computing: device used to print text or images) · fi tulostin (computing: device used to print text or images) · uz printer (computing: device used to print text or images) · cs tiskařka (operator of a printing press)

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printer en · NOUN

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