printer

/'printə/

Thân thiện

A student prints her essay on the classroom printer.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A machine that produces text or images on paper: A device that creates physical copies of digital documents or graphics.
   • (Computing) An output device: A peripheral connected to a computer that produces a permanent, human-readable representation of data.
   • A person or company in the printing trade: An individual whose occupation is setting type and operating presses, or a business that provides printing services.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Machine):
  • The office needs a new color printer.
  • My printer is out of ink.
• Noun (Person/Business):
  • She works as a printer at the local newspaper.
  • We sent the book files to the printer for publication.

Advanced Usage

• "Printer-friendly": Used to describe a version of a digital document formatted to use less ink and be easily printed.
  • Always check for a printer-friendly version of the webpage before printing.
• "Printer driver": The software that allows a computer to communicate with and control a specific printer model.
  • You must install the correct printer driver for it to work.

Variants and Related Words

• Print (verb): To produce text or pictures on paper or another material using a machine.
  • Please print the report.
• Printing (noun): The process, business, or art of producing printed material.
  • The invention of printing revolutionized communication.
• Printout (noun): A page or set of pages printed from a computer.
  • He handed me a printout of the schedule.

Synonyms

• Output device (for the machine).
• Pressman (for the person).
• Print shop (for the business).

Related Phrases

• Printer cable: The physical wire connecting a printer to a computer.
• Printer queue: The list of documents waiting to be printed by a shared printer.
  • Your document is stuck in the printer queue.

Idioms

• "To run something off on the printer": To print something, often quickly.
  • Can you run off ten copies on the printer for the meeting?

Học thuật

Noun

1. a machine that prints
2. (computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing
3. someone whose occupation is printing

Từ đồng nghĩa

• printing machine
• pressman