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# printer

«printer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a machine that prints words and pictures on paper from a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (printer, printers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A printer is a machine that prints words and pictures on paper from a computer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printer/#m1)

2) A printer is also a person or company whose job is printing books, newspapers or posters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printer/#m2)

3) A 3D printer builds solid objects layer by layer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printer/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a machine printing pages at a rate (pages per minute); time = pages ÷ rate; two printers working together add their rates; sheets of paper in the tray. In everyday life: printing homework, out of ink, a paper jam. In history: the printing press made books cheap. Phrases: «printer ink», «paper jam», «3D printer», «laser printer».

### examples

- A printer prints 15 pages a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printer/#x1)
- Two printers work together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printer/#x2)
- The printer has 200 sheets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printer/#x3)
- How long to print 90 pages? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printer/#x4)
- The printer has run out of ink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printer/#x5)
- There's a paper jam in the printer again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printer/#x6)
- Our school 3D printer made a plastic dinosaur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printer/#x7)
- Send the photo to the printer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printer/#x8)

### note

Countable: «a printer». Maths: a rate: time = pages ÷ rate. Trap: two printers together add their rates (15 + 15 = 30 pages a minute), so the time halves.

### In the corpora

- [Printers use cyan, magenta and yellow instead, which mix cleaner colours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/8/)
- [Chinese printers often kept using carved woodblocks, because Chinese needs thousands of different characters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/10/)
- [William Caxton brought the printing press to England in 1476; printers had to choose spellings, and many of their choices stuck.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «printer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.