Printer (computing)

HP LaserJet 5 printer
The Game Boy Pocket Printer, a thermal printer released as a peripheral for the Nintendo Game Boy
This is an example of a wide-carriage dot matrix printer, designed for 14-inch (360 mm) wide paper, shown with 8.5-by-14-inch (220 mm × 360 mm) legal paper. Wide carriage printers were often used in the field of businesses, to print accounting records on 11-by-14-inch (280 mm × 360 mm) tractor-feed paper. They were also called "132-column printers".
A video showing an inkjet printer while printing a page

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] Different types of printers include 3D printers, inkjet printers, laser printers, and thermal printers.[3]

  1. ^ "Printer - Definition of printer by Merriam-Webster". merriam-webster.com. Archived from the original on 18 August 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  2. ^ "0271-2834-MTDC; Assembling a Bar-Code Tracking System". Archived from the original on 1 June 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2019. Printers designed to print bar-code labels ...
  3. ^ "What is a Printer?". computerhope.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2020.