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

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

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...

Printer tracking dots, also known as printer steganography, DocuColor tracking dots, yellow dots, secret dots, or a machine identification code (MIC),...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

That Printer of Udell's is a 1902 work of fiction by Harold Bell Wright. Wright, who served as a minister before becoming a writer, created a story with...

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

or have produced digital printers. This list includes only those companies who have actually designed and manufactured printers, not those who have only...

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...

A label printer is a computer printer that prints on self-adhesive label material and/or card-stock (tags). A label printer with built-in keyboard 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]...

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...

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