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They were also called "132-column printers". In computing, a printer is a peripheral machine which makes a durable representation of graphics or text, usually on paper. [ 1] While most output is human-readable, bar code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers. [ 2]
Inkjet printing is a type of computer printing that recreates a digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper and plastic substrates. [ 1] Inkjet printers were the most commonly used type of printer in 2008, [ 2] and range from small inexpensive consumer models to expensive professional machines.
Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The earliest known form of printing evolved from ink rubbings made on paper or cloth from texts on stone ...
The history of printing starts as early as 3000 BCE, when the proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations used cylinder seals to certify documents written in clay tablets. Other early forms include block seals, hammered coinage, pottery imprints, and cloth printing. Initially a method of printing patterns on cloth such as silk, woodblock printing ...
Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process. It produces high-quality text and graphics (and moderate-quality photographs) by repeatedly passing a laser beam back and forth over a negatively charged cylinder called a "drum" to define a differentially charged image. [ 1] The drum then selectively collects electrically charged ...
Printer, Kentucky, an unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, U.S. Printer's Alley, an alley in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., that was historically home to multiple publishers. Printer's Park, a small park in the Bronx, New York City, U.S.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Printers. A computer printer is a computer peripheral device that produces a hard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics usually on paper) from data stored in a computer connected to it. A virtual printer is a piece of computer software whose user interface and API resemble that of a printer ...
Multi-function printer. A Ricoh 5055 B&W MFP (released in 2017). 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 functionality of multiple devices in one, so as to have a smaller footprint in a home or small business ...