1. printer(n = noun.person) pressman - someone whose occupation is printing; Array
is a kind of skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
has particulars: compositor, setter, typesetter, typographer, proofreader, reader, bodoni, gianbattista bodoni, bradford, william bradford, caxton, william caxton, benjamin franklin, franklin, frederic goudy, frederic william goudy, goudy, gutenberg, johann gutenberg, johannes gutenberg
Derived forms verb print1, verb print4
2. printer(n = noun.artifact) Array - (computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing; Array
is a kind of computer peripheral, peripheral, peripheral device, printer, printing machine
has particulars: dot matrix printer, dot printer, matrix printer
Derived forms verb print1, verb print4
3. printer(n = noun.artifact) printing machine - a machine that prints; Array
is a kind of machine
has particulars: addressing machine, addressograph, character-at-a-time printer, character printer, serial printer, electrostatic printer, impact printer, line-at-a-time printer, line printer, page-at-a-time printer, page printer, printer, thermal printer, typesetting machine
Derived forms verb print1, verb print4
One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman. [1913 Webster]
printer, n.
1 a person who prints books, magazines, advertising matter, etc.
2 the owner of a printing business.
3 a device that prints, esp. as part of a computer system.
Idiom:
printer's devil an errand-boy in a printer's office. printer's mark a device used as a printer's trade mark. printer's pie = PIE(3) n.
N printing, block printing, type-printing, plate printing, (engraving), the press, composition, print, letterpress, text, context, note, page, column, typography, stereotype, electrotype, aprotype, type, black letter, font, fount, pi, pie, capitals, brevier, bourgeois, pica boldface, capitals, caps, catchword, composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick, italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype, lower case, upper case, make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, 4-1/2 point, 5 point, 5-1/2 point, 6 point, 7 point, 8 point, press room, press work, reglet, roman, running head, running title, scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay, folio, copy, impression, pull, proof, revise, author's proof, galley proof, press proof, press revise, printer, compositor, reader, printer's devil copyholder, printed, in type, typographical, solid in galleys.
bar printer, bubble jet printer, bubble-jet printer, chain printer, character printer, character-at-a-time printer, daisywheel printer, dot matrix printer, dot printer, drum printer, electrostatic printer, impact printer, ink-jet printer, laser printer, line printer, line-at-a-time printer, matrix printer, page printer, page-at-a-time printer, printer cable, serial printer, stylus printer, thermal printer, wire matrix printer, wire printer, xerographic printer