- a person or business engaged in printing
- a machine or device that prints
- an output device for printing results on paper
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
print•er /ˈprɪntɚ/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Printinga person or company in the business of printing.
- a machine used for printing.
- Computinga computer output device that produces a paper copy of data or graphics:Be sure your printer is properly connected to the computer.
print•er
(prin′tər),USA pronunciation n.
print′er•like′, adj.
- Printinga person or thing that prints, esp. a person whose occupation is printing.
- Computingan output device that produces a paper copy of alphanumeric or graphic data.
- Telecommunicationsan instrument that automatically records telegraphic messages by means of a printing mechanism activated by incoming signals.
- Cinema[Motion Pictures.]a photographic machine through which either the negative or positive of a master print can be run, together with unexposed film, to make a duplicate.
- print + -er1 1495–1505
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
printer /ˈprɪntə/ n
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'printer' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Aldus Manutius
- bubble-jet printer
- canon
- cartridge
- chain printer
- cinematograph
- colophon
- Columbian
- daisywheel
- devil
- dot-matrix printer
- galley
- galley proof
- imprint
- index
- kern
- laser printer
- line printer
- linseed oil
- matrix printer
- Moon
- PE
- peripheral device
- pi
- pica
- printer's devil
- print out
- proof
- proofread
- ream
- sans serif
- toolkit
- typefounder
- A, a
- adman
- author's alteration
- B, b
- Ben Day process
- bibliography
- Bodoni
- bourgeois
- Bradford
- C, c
- cancel
- carriage return
- Caxton
- character set
- clean
- computer graphics
- configuration
