Look up printer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Printer may refer to: Printer (publishing), a person or a company Printer (computing), a hardware...

code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers. Different types of printers include 3D printers, inkjet printers, laser printers, and thermal...

also known as printer steganography, yellow dots, tracking dots or secret dots, is a digital watermark which certain color laser printers and copiers leave...

in home printers from 15 dB to 75 dB. Some main sources of noise in filament printers are fans, motors and bearings, while in resin printers the fans...

A line printer prints one entire line of text before advancing to another line. Most early line printers were impact printers. Line printers are mostly...

Line Printer Daemon protocol/Line Printer Remote protocol (or LPD, LPR) is a network printing protocol for submitting print jobs to a remote printer. The...

of ink onto paper and plastic substrates. Inkjet printers were the most commonly used type of printer in 2008, and range from small inexpensive consumer...

An LED printer is a type of computer printer similar to a laser printer. Such a printer uses a light-emitting diode (LED) array as a light source in the...

relatively low-resolution dot matrix for layout. Dot matrix printers are a type of impact printer that prints using a fixed number of pins or wires and typically...

document onto the exposed drum. The laser printer was invented at Xerox PARC in the 1970s. Laser printers were introduced for the office and then home...

computers, a printer driver or a print processor is a piece of software on a computer that converts the data to be printed to a format that a printer can understand...

as line printers and dot-matrix printers. Page printers are often all incorrectly termed “laser printers”—although virtually all laser printers are page...

PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files are created by vendors to describe the entire set of features and capabilities available for their PostScript...

prepress proofs, today this technology survives in ID card printers and dedicated photo printers, often under the name dye diffusion thermal transfer (D2T2)...

label printer SATO M-2311 was produced in 1981. Thermal-transfer printing is done by melting wax within the print heads of a specialized printer. The thermal-transfer...

Printer Command Language, more commonly referred to as PCL, is a page description language (PDL) developed by Hewlett-Packard as a printer protocol and...

Printer Job Language (PJL) is a method developed by Hewlett-Packard for switching printer languages at the job level, and for status readback between...

publishing, printers are both companies providing printing services and individuals who directly operate printing presses. The history of printers in publishing...

Printer-friendly is a term used on the Internet to describe a version of a web page formatted for printing. Normally, web pages include information and...

graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers. It was superseded by DirectDraw API and later Direct2D API.[citation needed]...

mediating between a computer application and a slow peripheral, such as a printer. Spooling allows programs to "hand off" work to be done by the peripheral...

raster graphics). An overlapping term is printer control language, which includes Hewlett-Packard's Printer Command Language (PCL). PostScript is one...

An MFP (multi-function product/printer/peripheral), multi-functional, all-in-one (AIO), or multi-function device (MFD), is an office machine which incorporates...

market. Barcode printer Dye-sublimation printer Label printer Label printer applicator LightScribe Line matrix printer Line printer Thermographic printing...

In computing a virtual printer is a simulated device whose user interface and API resemble that of a printer driver, but which is not connected to a physical...

Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free is an autobiographical book written by American gun rights activist, author and crypto-anarchist...

An optical printer is a device consisting of one or more film projectors mechanically linked to a movie camera. It allows filmmakers to re-photograph...

The Sinclair ZX Printer is a spark printer which was produced by Sinclair Research for its ZX81 home computer. It was launched in 1981, with a recommended...

3D printer extruder is a filament feeding mechanism used in many fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printers. There are several types of 3D printer extruders...

A barcode printer is a computer peripheral for printing barcode labels or tags that can be attached to, or printed directly on, physical objects. Barcode...