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Printer (computing)

Index Printer (computing)

In computing, a printer is a peripheral device which makes a persistent human-readable representation of graphics or text on paper. [1]

154 relations: Adhesion, Application programming interface, Automated teller machine, Automatic document feeder, Barcode, Blueprint, Brother Industries, Canon Inc., Canvas print, Carbon paper, Carbonless copy paper, Cardboard modeling, Cash register, Character (computing), Charles Babbage, CMYK color model, Color, Commodore International, Computer compatibility, Computer network, Computer program, Computing, Continuous stationery, Control character, Credit card, Daisy wheel printing, Descender, Desktop publishing, Difference engine, Digital camera, Dot matrix printer, Dot matrix printing, E-reader, Economics, Electrofax, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Email, Emphasis (typography), Energy conservation, EP-101, ESC/P, Friden Flexowriter, Fuel dispenser, Gamut, Graphic design, Grayscale, Hewlett-Packard, History of printing, HP Deskjet, HP LaserJet, ..., IBM, IBM 1132, IBM 1403, IBM 1443, IBM Selectric typewriter, Image, Image resolution, Image scanner, Ink, Ink cartridge, Inkjet printing, Interest rate, Internet, Invoice, ISO 216, ISO/IEC 19752, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Label printer, Laser, Laser printing, LaserWriter, LED printer, Letter (paper size), Letterform, Lexmark, Light-emitting diode, Line matrix printer, Line printer, List of printer companies, Magnetic flux, Magnetic ink character recognition, Memory card, Minilab, Monochrome, Multipart stationery, Offset printing, Open XML Paper Specification, Operating system, Page description language, PDF, Pen, Peripheral, Personal computer, Personal Printer Data Stream, Photocopier, Photodetector, Photographic film, Photographic paper, Pin, Plain text, Plotter, PostScript, Preventive maintenance, PRINT (command), Print job, Print screen, Print server, Printer (publishing), Printer Command Language, Printer driver, Printer point, Printer Working Group, Printer-friendly, Printing, Printmaking, Printronix, Raster graphics, Raytheon, Razor and blades model, Ricoh, Seiko Epson, Seikosha, Solid ink, Spare part, Spark printing, Steganography, Stored energy printer, Tablet computer, Tektronix, Teleprinter, Teletype Corporation, The NPD Group, Thermal printing, Thermal-transfer printing, Time preference, Toner cartridge, Toshiba, Trade-off, Transparency (projection), Typesetting, Typewriter, Underline, USB, Vector graphics, Virtual printer, VT52, Xerography, Xerox, Xerox 9700, Xerox Phaser, Zink (technology), 3D printing, 3M. Expand index (104 more) »

Adhesion

Adhesion is the tendency of dissimilar particles or surfaces to cling to one another (cohesion refers to the tendency of similar or identical particles/surfaces to cling to one another).

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Application programming interface

In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software.

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Automated teller machine

An automated teller machine (ATM) is an electronic telecommunications device that enables customers of financial institutions to perform financial transactions, such as cash withdrawals, deposits, transfer funds, or obtaining account information, at any time and without the need for direct interaction with bank staff.

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Automatic document feeder

In multifunction or all-in-one printers, fax machines, photocopiers and scanners, an automatic document feeder or ADF is a feature which takes several pages and feeds the paper one page at a time into a scanner or copier, allowing the user to scan, and thereby copy, print, or fax, multiple-page documents without having to manually replace each page.

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Barcode

A barcode (also bar code) is an optical, machine-readable, representation of data; the data usually describes something about the object that carries the barcode.

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Blueprint

A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing, an architectural plan, or an engineering design, using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets.

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Brother Industries

is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment company headquartered in Nagoya, Japan.

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Canon Inc.

is a Japanese multinational corporation specializing in the manufacture of imaging and optical products, including cameras, camcorders, photocopiers, steppers, computer printers and medical equipment. It's headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan."." Canon. Retrieved on 13 January 2009. Canon has a primary listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the TOPIX index. It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Canvas print

A canvas print is the result of an image printed onto canvas which is stretched, or gallery-wrapped, onto a frame and displayed.

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Carbon paper

Carbon paper (originally carbonic paper) was originally paper coated on one side with a layer of a loosely bound dry ink or pigmented coating, bound with wax, used for making one or more copies simultaneously with the creation of an original document when using a typewriter or a ballpoint pen.

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Carbonless copy paper

Carbonless copy paper (CCP), non-carbon copy paper, or NCR paper (No Carbon Required, taken from the initials of its creator, National Cash Register) is a type of coated paper designed to transfer information written on the front onto sheets beneath.

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Cardboard modeling

Cardboard modeling or cardboard engineering is a form of modelling with paper, card stock, paperboard, and corrugated fiberboard.

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Cash register

A cash register, also referred to as a till in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, is a mechanical or electronic device for registering and calculating transactions at a point of sale.

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Character (computing)

In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.

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Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath.

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CMYK color model

The CMYK color model (process color, four color) is a subtractive color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself.

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Color

Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the characteristic of human visual perception described through color categories, with names such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple.

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Commodore International

Commodore International (or Commodore International Limited) was an American home computer and electronics manufacturer founded by Jack Tramiel.

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Computer compatibility

A family of computer models is said to be compatible if certain software that runs on one of the models can also be run on all other models of the family.

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Computer network

A computer network, or data network, is a digital telecommunications network which allows nodes to share resources.

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Computer program

A computer program is a collection of instructions for performing a specific task that is designed to solve a specific class of problems.

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Computing

Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers.

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Continuous stationery

Continuous stationery (UK) or continuous form paper (US) is paper which is designed for use with dot-matrix and line printers with appropriate paper-feed mechanisms.

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Control character

In computing and telecommunication, a control character or non-printing character is a code point (a number) in a character set, that does not represent a written symbol.

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Credit card

A credit card is a payment card issued to users (cardholders) to enable the cardholder to pay a merchant for goods and services based on the cardholder's promise to the card issuer to pay them for the amounts so paid plus the other agreed charges.

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Daisy wheel printing

Daisy wheel printing is an impact printing technology invented in 1969 by David S. Lee at Diablo Data Systems.

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Descender

In typography, a descender is the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font.

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Desktop publishing

Desktop publishing (abbreviated DTP) is the creation of documents using page layout skills on a personal computer primarily for print.

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Difference engine

A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.

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Digital camera

A digital camera or digicam is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory.

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Dot matrix printer

A dot matrix printer is an impact printer that prints using a fixed number of pins or wires.

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Dot matrix printing

Dot matrix printing is the process of computer printing from a collection of dot matrix data to a device, which can be one of.

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E-reader

An e-reader, also called an e-book reader or e-book device, is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals.

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Economics

Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Electrofax

An electrofax involved electrostatic printer and copier technology, where an image was formed directly on the paper, instead of first on a drum, then transferred to paper, as it would be in xerography.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.

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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.

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Emphasis (typography)

In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them.

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Energy conservation

Energy conservation is the effort made to reduce the consumption of energy by using less of an energy service.

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EP-101

The EP-101 was the first ever electronic miniprinter for printing figures and symbols and was launched by Shinshu Seiki Co., a subsidiary of Suwa Seikosha Co., Ltd, in September 1968.

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ESC/P

ESC/P, short for Epson Standard Code for Printers and sometimes styled Escape/P, is a printer control language developed by Epson to control computer printers.

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Friden Flexowriter

The Friden Flexowriter was a teleprinter, a heavy-duty electric typewriter capable of being driven not only by a human typing, but also automatically by several methods, including direct attachment to a computer and by use of paper tape.

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Fuel dispenser

A fuel dispenser is a machine at a filling station that is used to pump gasoline, petrol, diesel, CNG, CGH2, HCNG, LPG, LH2, ethanol fuel, biofuels like biodiesel, kerosene, or other types of fuel into vehicles.

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Gamut

In color reproduction, including computer graphics and photography, the gamut, or color gamut, is a certain complete subset of colors.

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Graphic design

Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, photography and illustration.

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Grayscale

In photography, computing, and colorimetry, a grayscale or greyscale image is one in which the value of each pixel is a single sample representing only an amount of light, that is, it carries only intensity information.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP) or shortened to Hewlett-Packard was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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History of printing

The history of printing goes back to the duplication of images by means of stamps in very early times.

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HP Deskjet

Deskjet is a brand name for inkjet printers manufactured by HP Inc. (Hewlett-Packard). These printers range from small domestic to large industrial models, although the largest models in the range have generally been dubbed DesignJet.

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HP LaserJet

LaserJet as a brand name identifies the line of dry electrophotographic (DEP) laser printers marketed by the American computer company Hewlett-Packard (HP).

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IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.

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IBM 1132

The IBM 1132 line printer was the normal printer for the IBM 1130 computer system.

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IBM 1403

The IBM 1403 line printer was introduced as part of the IBM 1401 computer in 1959 and had an especially long life in the IBM product line.

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IBM 1443

The IBM 1443 Printer (sometimes referred to as the 1443 Flying Type Bar Printer) is an obsolete punched card era line printer.

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IBM Selectric typewriter

The IBM Selectric typewriter was a highly successful model line of electric typewriters introduced by IBM on 31 July 1961.

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Image

An image (from imago) is an artifact that depicts visual perception, for example, a photo or a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person, thus providing a depiction of it.

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Image resolution

Image resolution is the detail an image holds.

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Image scanner

An image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner, although the term is ambiguous out of context (barcode scanner, CT scanner etc.)—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image.

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Ink

Ink is a liquid or paste that contains pigments or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design.

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Ink cartridge

An ink cartridge or inkjet cartridge is a component of an inkjet printer that contains the ink that is deposited onto paper during printing.

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Inkjet printing

Inkjet printing is a type of computer printing that recreates a digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper, plastic, or other substrates.

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Interest rate

An interest rate is the amount of interest due per period, as a proportion of the amount lent, deposited or borrowed (called the principal sum).

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Invoice

An invoice, bill or tab is a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer, relating to a sale transaction and indicating the products, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services the seller had provided the buyer.

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ISO 216

ISO 216 specifies international standard (ISO) paper sizes used in most countries in the world today, although not in Canada, the United States, Mexico, or the Dominican Republic.

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ISO/IEC 19752

ISO/IEC 19752 Information technology — Method for the determination of toner cartridge yield for monochromatic electrophotographic printers and multi-function devices that contain printer components is an ISO standard method for the determination of toner cartridge yield for monochrome laser printers, introduced in June 2004.

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Konica Minolta

is a Japanese multinational technology company headquartered in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, with offices in 49 countries worldwide.

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Kyocera

() is a Japanese multinational ceramics and electronics manufacturer headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.

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Label printer

A label printer is a computer printer that prints on self-adhesive label material and/or card-stock (tags).

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Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.

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Laser printing

Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process.

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LaserWriter

The LaserWriter is a laser printer with built-in PostScript interpreter sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1985 to 1988.

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LED printer

An LED printer is a type of computer printer similar to a laser printer.

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Letter (paper size)

Letter or ANSI Letter is a paper size commonly used as home or office stationery in the United States, Canada, Chile, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and the Philippines.

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Letterform

A letterform, letter-form or letter form, is a term used especially in typography, paleography, calligraphy and epigraphy to mean a letter's shape.

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Lexmark

Lexmark International, Inc. is an American company that manufactures laser printers and imaging products.

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Light-emitting diode

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a two-lead semiconductor light source.

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Line matrix printer

A line matrix printer is a computer printer that is a compromise between a line printer and a dot matrix printer.

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Line printer

A line printer prints one entire line of text before advancing to another line.

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List of printer companies

This is a list of companies who produce or have produced digital printers.

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Magnetic flux

In physics, specifically electromagnetism, the magnetic flux (often denoted or) through a surface is the surface integral of the normal component of the magnetic field B passing through that surface.

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Magnetic ink character recognition

MICR code is a character-recognition technology used mainly by the banking industry to ease the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents.

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Memory card

A memory card, flash card or memory cartridge is an electronic flash memory data storage device used for storing digital information.

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Minilab

A minilab is a small photographic developing and printing system, as opposed to large centralized photo developing labs.

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Monochrome

Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or values of one color.

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Multipart stationery

Multipart or multi-part stationery is paper that is blank, or preprinted as a form to be completed, comprising a stack of several copies, either on carbonless paper or plain paper interleaved with carbon paper.

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Offset printing

Offset printing is a commonly used printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface.

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Open XML Paper Specification

Open XML Paper Specification (also referred to as OpenXPS) is an open specification for a page description language and a fixed-document format.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

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Page description language

In digital printing, a page description language (PDL) is a computer language that describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual output bitmap.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Pen

A pen is a common writing instrument used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing.

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Peripheral

A peripheral device is "an ancillary device used to put information into and get information out of the computer." Three categories of peripheral devices exist based on their relationship with the computer.

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Personal computer

A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use.

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Personal Printer Data Stream

Personal Printer Data Stream is a general name for a family of page description language used by IBM printers, which includes all Proprinter, Quietwriter, Quickwriter, LaserPrinter 4019, and LaserPrinter 4029 commands.

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Photocopier

A photocopier (also known as a copier or copy machine) is a machine that makes paper copies of documents and other visual images quickly and cheaply.

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Photodetector

Photosensors or photodetectors are sensors of light or other electromagnetic energy.

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Photographic film

Photographic film is a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing microscopically small light-sensitive silver halide crystals.

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Photographic paper

Photographic paper is a paper coated with a light-sensitive chemical formula, used for making photographic prints.

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Pin

A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together.

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Plain text

In computing, plain text is the data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects (images, etc.). It may also include a limited number of characters that control simple arrangement of text, such as line breaks or tabulation characters.

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Plotter

The plotter is a computer printer for printing vector graphics.

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PostScript

PostScript (PS) is a page description language in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing business.

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Preventive maintenance

Preventive maintenance or preventative maintenance (PM) has the following meanings.

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PRINT (command)

In computing, print command was introduced in MS-DOS/IBM PC DOS 2.0 in order to provide single-user print spooling capability.

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Print job

In computing, a print job is a file or set of files that has been submitted to be printed.

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Print screen

Print screen (often abbreviated Print Scrn, Prnt Scrn, Prt Scrn, Prt Scn, Prt Scr, Prt Sc or Pr Sc) is a key present on most PC keyboards.

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Print server

A print server, or printer server, is a device that connects printers to client computers over a network.

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Printer (publishing)

In publishing, printers are both companies providing printing services and individuals who directly operate printing presses.

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Printer Command Language

Printer Command Language, more commonly referred to as PCL, is a page description language (PDL) developed by Hewlett-Packard as a printer protocol and has become a de facto industry standard.

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Printer driver

In computers, a printer driver or a print processor is a piece of software that converts the data to be printed to the form specific to a printer.

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Printer point

In photography, a printer point is a unit of relative exposure, in printing a negative, equal to a 1/12 of a stop or 0.025 Log(base 10) unit (one-fortieth of a decade) of exposure ratio.

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Printer Working Group

The Printer Working Group charter is to develop standards that make printers, operating systems and applications work better.

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Printer-friendly

Printer-friendly is a term used on the Internet to describe a version of a web page formatted for printing.

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Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template.

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Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper.

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Printronix

Printronix is an American supplier of line matrix printers.The company offers enterprise grade industrial printing solutions.

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Raster graphics

In computer graphics, a raster graphics or bitmap image is a dot matrix data structure that represents a generally rectangular grid of pixels (points of color), viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium.

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Raytheon

The Raytheon Company is a major U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics.

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Razor and blades model

The razor and blades business model is a business model wherein one item is sold at a low price (or given away for free) in order to increase sales of a complementary good, such as consumable supplies.

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Ricoh

is a Japanese multinational imaging and electronics company.

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Seiko Epson

(Epson being an abbreviation for "Son of Electronic Printer"), or simply Epson, is a Japanese electronics company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer printers, and information and imaging related equipment.

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Seikosha

was a branch of the Japanese company Seiko that produced clocks, watches, shutters, computer printers and other devices.

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Solid ink

Solid ink is a technology used in computer printers and multifunction devices originally credited with creation by Tektronix in 1986.

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Spare part

A spare part, spare, service part, repair part, or replacement part, is an interchangeable part that is kept in an inventory and used for the repair or replacement of failed units.

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Spark printing

Spark printing is an obsolete form of computer printing and before that fax and chart recorder printing which uses a special paper coated with a conductive layer over a contrasting backing, originally black carbon over white paper but later aluminium over black paper.

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Steganography

Steganography is the practice of concealing a file, message, image, or video within another file, message, image, or video.

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Stored energy printer

A stored energy printer is a computer printer that uses the energy stored in a spring or magnetic field to push a hammer through a ribbon to print a dot.

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Tablet computer

A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a portable personal computer, typically with a mobile operating system and LCD touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single thin, flat package.

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Tektronix

Tektronix, Inc., historically widely known as "Tek", is an American company best known for manufacturing test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment.

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Teleprinter

A teleprinter (teletypewriter, Teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical typewriter that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations.

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Teletype Corporation

The Teletype Corporation, a part of American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Western Electric manufacturing arm since 1930, came into being in 1928 when the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Company changed its name to the name of its trademark equipment.

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The NPD Group

The NPD Group, Inc. (NPD; formerly National Purchase Diary Panel Inc. and NPD Research Inc.) is an American market research company founded on September 28, 1966 and based in Port Washington, New York.

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Thermal printing

Thermal printing (or direct thermal printing) is a digital printing process which produces a printed image by selectively heating coated thermochromic paper, or thermal paper as it is commonly known, when the paper passes over the thermal print head.

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Thermal-transfer printing

Thermal-transfer printing is a digital printing method in which material is applied to paper (or some other material) by melting a coating of ribbon so that it stays glued to the material on which the print is applied.

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Time preference

In economics, time preference (or time discounting, delay discounting, temporal discounting) is the current relative valuation placed on receiving a good at an earlier date compared with receiving it at a later date.

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Toner cartridge

A toner cartridge, also called laser toner, is the consumable component of a laser printer.

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Toshiba

, commonly known as Toshiba, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Trade-off

A trade-off (or tradeoff) is a situational decision that involves diminishing or losing one quality, quantity or property of a set or design in return for gains in other aspects.

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Transparency (projection)

A transparency, also known variously as a viewfoil, foil, or viewgraph, is a thin sheet of transparent flexible material, typically cellulose acetate, onto which figures can be drawn.

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Typesetting

Typesetting is the composition of text by means of arranging physical typesDictionary.com Unabridged.

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Typewriter

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type.

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Underline

An underline, also called an underscore, is a more or less horizontal line immediately below a portion of writing.

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USB

USB (abbreviation of Universal Serial Bus), is an industry standard that was developed to define cables, connectors and protocols for connection, communication, and power supply between personal computers and their peripheral devices.

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Vector graphics

Vector graphics are computer graphics images that are defined in terms of 2D points, which are connected by lines and curves to form polygons and other shapes.

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Virtual printer

In computing a virtual printer is a simulated device whose user interface and API resemble that of a printer driver, but which is not connected with a physical computer printer.

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VT52

The VT50 was a CRT-based computer terminal introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in July 1974.

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Xerography

Xerography or electrophotography is a dry photocopying technique.

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Xerox

Xerox Corporation (also known as Xerox, stylized as xerox since 2008, and previously as XEROX or XeroX from 1960 to 2008) is an American global corporation that sells print and digital document solutions, and document technology products in more than 160 countries.

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Xerox 9700

The Xerox 9700 was a high-end laser printer manufactured by Xerox Corporation beginning in 1977.

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Xerox Phaser

Xerox Phaser is the brand name for a line of color and monochrome printers produced and sold by Xerox.

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Zink (technology)

Zink (stylised as ZINK), a portmanteau of "zero ink," is a full-color printing technology for digital devices that does not require ink cartridges and prints in a single pass.

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3D printing

3D printing is any of various processes in which material is joined or solidified under computer control to create a three-dimensional object, with material being added together (such as liquid molecules or powder grains being fused together).

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3M

The 3M Company, formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation based in Maplewood, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_(computing)

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