printer

noun3

1. •
   A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.

   • The use of the Hughes type printer is extending on the main circuits, where speed of transmission is a great object; but it is highly improbable that it will ever be adopted, except on main circuits. — 1872
2. •
   One who makes prints.
3. •
   The operator of a printing press or the owner of a printing business; (metonymic) any printing business.

   • IMPRINTED at London in Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelet, printer to the kynges highnes, the seconde of July, the yere of our lorde. M. DXLV. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum. — 1545