printer

Noun

US[prin-ter]/ˈprɪntɚ/2 syllablesalso [prin-er] /ˈprɪnɚ/

Synonyms: printing machine

Open English WordNet

Noun (3)printers

someone whose occupation is printingType of skilled worker, trained workerKinds proofreader, presswoman, pressman, compositorExamples Franklin, Giambattista Bodoni, Caxton, Bradford, Goudy, Gutenberg
(computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processingType of peripheral, printing machineKinds dot matrix printer, matrix printer
a machine that printsSynonyms: printing machineType of machineKinds page printer, electrostatic printer, impact printer, thermal printer, line printer, typesetting machine, character printer, addressing machine

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Translations

Noun operator of a printing press

Spanish: impresor
French: imprimeur
German: Drucker
Portuguese: impressor
Russian: печа́тник pečátnik
Arabic: طابع ṭābiʕ
Dutch: drukker
Polish: drukarz
Swedish: tryckare
Greek: τυπογράφος typográfos

12 more languages

Hungarian: nyomdász
Portuguese (PT): impressor
Czech: tiskař
Danish: trykker
Esperanto: tipografo
Finnish: painaja
Icelandic: prentari
Norwegian: trykker
Romanian: tipograf
Scottish Gaelic: clò-bhualadair
Welsh: argraffwr
Yiddish: דרוקער druker

Noun computing

Spanish: impresora
French: imprimante
German: Drucker
Italian: stampante
Portuguese: impressora
Turkish: yazıcı
Russian: при́нтер príntɛr
Arabic: طَابِعَة ṭābiʕa
Chinese: 打印机 dǎyìnjī
Japanese: プリンター purintā

30 more languages

Dutch: printer
Polish: drukarka
Swedish: skrivare
Greek: εκτυπωτής ektypotís
Korean: 프린터 peurinteo
Indonesian: pencetak
Vietnamese: máy in
Hungarian: nyomtató
Portuguese (PT): impressora
Chinese (Trad.): 打印機 dǎyìnjī
Albanian: printer
Catalan: impressora
Czech: tiskárna
Danish: printer
Esperanto: presilo
Estonian: printer
Finnish: tulostin
Georgian: პრინტერი ṗrinṭeri
Hebrew: מַדְפֶּסֶת madpéset
Icelandic: prentari
Kurdish: çaper
Latvian: printeris
Lithuanian: spausdintuvas
Norwegian: skriver
Romanian: imprimantă
Serbo-Croatian: štampač
Slovak: tlačiareň
Slovenian: tiskalnik
Welsh: argraffydd
Yiddish: דרוקער druker

The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Print′er noun

One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman.

Printer's devil, Printer's gauge. See under Devil, and Gauge. — Printer's ink. See Printing ink, below.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

printer

<printer> A peripheral device for producing text and images on paper. There are many different types, broadly grouped into "impact printers" and "non-impact printers".

Compare plotter. See also Braille printer, tree-killer.

(1996-01-13)