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Printer (computing)
Computer peripheral that prints text or graphics

A printer is a peripheral machine which makes a durable representation of graphics or text, usually on paper.1 While most output is human-readable, bar code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers.2 Different types of printers include 3D printers, inkjet printers, laser printers, and thermal printers.3

The Game Boy Pocket Printer, a thermal printer released as a peripheral for the Nintendo Game Boy
This is an example of a wide-carriage dot matrix printer, designed for 14-inch (360 mm) wide paper, shown with 8.5-by-14-inch (220 mm × 360 mm) legal paper. Wide carriage printers were often used in the field of businesses, to print accounting records on 11-by-14-inch (280 mm × 360 mm) tractor-feed paper. They were also called "132-column printers".

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