means A device that produces text or images from a computer onto paper, or a person or business whose trade is reproducing printed material.

from From print, which travelled into English through Old French preinte, 'a pressed impression,' from Latin premere, 'to press' — the same squeezing root behind press and pressure. The earliest printers were people: those who pressed inked type against paper. Only later did the name pass to the machines, which inherited the job but not, apparently, the patience.