What is a printer?

Answer 1

Can be many things. See below.

Answer 2

A computer printer, or more commonly just a printer, is a device that produces hard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper or transparencies). Many printers are primarily used as computer peripherals, and are permanently attached to a computer which serves as a document source. Other printers, commonly known as network printer, have built-in network interfaces (typically wireless or Ethernet), and can serve as a hardcopy device for any user on the network. In addition, many modern printers can directly interface to electronic media such as memory sticks or memory cards, or to image capture devices such as digital cameras, scanners; some printers are combined with a scanners and/or fax machines in a single unit. A printer which is combined with a scanner can essentially function as a photocopier.

Printers are designed for low-volume, short-turnaround print jobs; requiring virtually no setup time to achieve a hard copy of a given document. However, printers are generally slow devices (10 pages per minute is considered fast; and many consumer printers are far slower than that), and the cost-per-page is relatively high, In contrast, the printing press (which serves much the same function), is designed and optimized for high-volume print jobs such as newspaper print runs--printing presses are capable of hundreds of pages per minute or more, and have an incremental cost-per-page which is a fraction of that of printers. The printing press remains the machine of choice for high-volume, professional publishing. However, as printers have improved in quality and performance, many jobs which used to be done by professional print shops are now done by users on local printers; see desktop publishing.

The world's first computer printer was a 19th-century mechanically driven apparatus invented by Charles Babbage for his Difference Engine.

Answer 3

A computer printer, or more commonly just a printer, is a device that produces hard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper or transparencies).

Answer 4

Printer can refer to a person working the printing press at a newspaper, magazine or any publication.

Answer 5

it is an output device connected to your computer that prints any file in your computer.

types: laser printer
inkjet printer

Answer 6

A person who transfers images or text onto paper or other materials via traditional ink or computer technological means.

Answer 7

Something that conects to a computer! It's where you can take the web sheet of something on the computer and then put it on a piece of paper!

Answer 8

A first grader, learning to write.

Answer 9

its that big thing that spits out pictures and words on paper in color

Answer 10

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