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Printer vs Printing - What's the difference?

printer | printing |

As nouns the difference between printer and printing

is that printer is one who makes prints while printing is (uncountable) the process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.

As a verb printing is

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printer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who makes prints.
  • The operator of a printing press or owner of a printing business.
  • (computing) A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper. Also see plotter.

    • Hyponyms

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    Anagrams

    * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • (machine used to print)

    • Synonyms

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    printing

    English

    (wikipedia printing)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.
  • (uncountable) Material that has been printed.
  • (countable) All the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch.
  • (uncountable) Written characters that are not joined up.

    • Verb

    (head)