Sunday, March 30, 2008

Computer printer

A computer printer, or more normally a printer, produces a hard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics) of documents stored in electronic form, frequently on physical print media such as paper or transparencies. Many printers are mostly used as local computer peripherals, and are attached by a printer cable to a computer which serves as a document source. Some printers, commonly known as network printers, have built-in network interface (typically wireless or Ethernet), and can serve as a hardcopy device for any user on the network. Individual printers are frequently intended to support both local and network connected users at the same time.

In addition, many modern printers can directly interface to electronic media such as memory sticks or memory cards, or to image capture devices such as digital cameras, scanners; a number of printers are combined with a scanners and/or fax machines in a single unit. Printers that contain non-printing features are sometimes called Multifunction Printers (MFP) or Multi-Function Devices (MFD).

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