the.com/printer
A loyal machine that senses your deadline and chooses violence with the cyan cartridge.
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.
- ink cost
- Pricier per gallon than vintage Champagne
- jam reflex
- Paper sticks worst when you hurry most
- first model
- Charles Babbage designed one in the 1840s
- color hostage
- Refuses black text without full color ink
- secret dots
- Many print invisible tracking codes on every page
xerox 914 — first commercial plain paper copier, released 1959, revolutionized office printing
gutenberg printing press — movable type press invented ~1440 in mainz, enabled mass production of books
hp laserjet — first commercial laser printer released 1984, became standard for offices worldwide