OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9266

printer

/ˈpɹɪntə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
impresor
One who makes prints.
Old Japanese colour-prints are printed on a sheet of mulberry-bark paper, and are the product of three different craftsmen: the artist who drew the original design, the block-maker…
impresor
The operator of a printing press or the owner of a printing business; (metonymic) any printing business.
Never one to waste an opportunity, he says now: "The low points? You can read about them in my forthcoming book! It's at the printers now.
[…] Pecuniary motives induced the first printers (from the large sums which were usually paid for manuscripts) to sell their works as such; so that printing was, for a period, as m…
impresora
A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.
By the use of these keys in conjunction with the other keys, the operator has perfect control over the receiving printer at the distant station.
The use of the Hughes type printer is extending on the main circuits, where speed of transmission is a great object; but it is highly improbable that it will ever be adopted, excep…
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