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What is a Printer?

Printers (formerly popular as printing devices) are computer peripherals that are used to print on paper (and sometimes other materials) documents that may include text and images. Most printers are used as peripherals attached by cable to a single personal computer. Other printers, known as network printers, operate with a built-in network interface (usually wireless or Ethernet), serving many users simultaneously. Many modern printers can reproduce electronic documents directly, from digital media (multimedia flash card, USB flash, scanner, digital camera or camcorder), without a connection to a computer. A printer combined in one device with a scanner, fax and copier is called a multifunction device.

The world's first mechanically driven printer was invented by Charles Babbage in the 19th century.

What are the different types of printers?

There are many different types of printers: from portable printers the size of a 0.500 ml mineral water bottle to giant-sized office printers that can copy, scan, fax, punch, collate sheets and collate them into a book.

The best way to understand printer types is to take a close look at the main ways they can be categorised: by place of use (home or office printers), by technology (inkjet and laser printers), single function and multifunction printers (MFPs), colour and monochrome (black and white). Most interestingly, printer types are divided into two main groups - impact and non-impact printers according to the printing technology.

Impact printers - Impact printers make contact with the paper. They usually form images on the paper by pressing an ink-soaked ribbon onto the sheet using a hammer or needles.

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What is a Printer?

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