One who makes prints. / The operator of a printing press, or the owner of a printing business.

plural of printer

(computing) A hardware or software device that stores a stream of data to be printed until a printer is ready to process it.

plural of inkjet printer

(computer hardware) A device for the printing of documents which that operates by propelling tiny droplets of liquid ink onto paper.

(computer hardware) A computer printer that uses a laser beam to produce an image on a rotating drum before transferring it to the paper.

plural of laser printer

(dated) An apprentice printer.

(computer hardware) A printer that operates by striking the page with moulded characters from a rotating circular arrangement, obsolete since the late 1980s.

(computer hardware) A printer that operates by applying heat to selected areas of specially treated paper.