c. 1500, "person who prints books, etc.," agent noun from print (v.). As a mechanical device from 1859, originally in telegraphy. In the computer sense, from 1946. Printer's bible (c. 1702) so called from mistaken substitution of printers for princes in Psalm cxix:161, which led to the misreading:
Printers have persecuted me without a cause.
权威例句
1. computer consumables such as disks and printer cartridges
如磁盘、打印机墨盒之类的电脑耗材
2. a daisy wheel printer
菊瓣字轮打印机
3. Click on the printer icon with the mouse.
用鼠标点击打印机图标。
4. the interface between computer and printer
计算机和打印机之间的接口
5. The printer has left out two lines from this paragraph.