| 释义 |
printer|ˈprɪntə(r)|
Also 6 prent-; 6 -or, -our, Sc. -ar.
[f. print v. + -er1. So MDu. and early mod.Du. prenter, printer.]
1. a. A person who prints, in any sense of the word; one engaged in impressing or stamping marks or designs upon a surface, as a calico-printer, and (formerly) a coiner.
1567Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 556 All Meltaris, Forgearis and Prentaris within the said cunyehous. 1570–1Ibid. XIV. 89 The generall maister cunzeour, warrandis,..sinkar, meltaris,..and prentaris of the cunze hous. 1704Collect. Voy. (Churchill) III. 803/2, 100 Printers of Callicoes. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 214 The great disadvantage under which the French printers labour is the higher price they pay for cotton fabrics, above that paid by the English printers. 1853Dickens Let. in Daily News 12 Jan. (1899) 5/2, I hope we shall never terminate our business engagements until that printer in stone, who will have to be employed at last, shall set ‘Finis’ over our last binding in boards! 1966J. & P. Dixon Photography i. 18 A good printer is of tremendous value to a studio. Without seeing the original subject he can take the negative and produce prints of superb quality.
b. spec. One whose business is the printing of books, etc.; the owner of a printing business (formerly usually identical with a publisher); a workman employed in a printing-office.
1504Statuta in Parliamento (Colophon), Emprented at London..by me Rycharde Pynson, Squyer and Prenter unto the Kynges noble grace. 1509Hawes' Conv. Swearers 90 (Colophon) Enprynted at London..by Wynkyn de Worde, prynter vnto the moost excellent pryncesse my lady the kynges graundame. a1520Dunbar Poems lxiii. 220 Pryntouris, payntouris, and potingaris. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 499/1 Of that writing that remayneth, some corrupted bi writers, some by prenters. 1570Levins Manip. Vocabul. 77/17 A Printer, chalcographus. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. (S.T.S.) 468 Thay consult to hinder his labour, to tak Mr. Ninian, to punise the prenter. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 14 Wee can no more ascribe these things to chance, than a Printers Case of letters could by chance fall into the right composition of the Bible which he printeth, or of Homers Iliads. 1770Junius Lett. i. 1 To the Printer of the Public Advertiser. 1867Brande & Cox Dict. Sc., etc. III. 69/2 Caxton's types, as well as those of most of the early printers, were the Gothic, or black letter characters.
2. An instrument or appliance used for printing.
a. A telegraphic printing instrument; now usu. short for teleprinter; b. a photographic negative in its printing capacity; c. mechanical printer, a name for a typewriter. (U.S.)
1859T. P. Shaffner Telegr. Manual xviii. 273 The apparatus comprises two essential mechanisms, the ‘Transmitter’ or ‘Compositor’, and the ‘Receiver’ or ‘Printer’. 1890Harper's Mag. Feb. 432/1 Edison's various devices in his old stock printer have formed the basis of all later variations on that sort of instrument. 1890Cent. Dict. s.v. Motor, Motor printer, a printing telegraph in which the mechanism is moved by electric, steam, or other motive power. 1905Westm. Gaz. 11 Mar. 14/2 It is not always the negative which looks best which is the best printer. 1928A. Williams Telegraphy & Telephony ii. 36 (caption) A specimen of the printing done with the Creed printer. 1960I. Fleming For your Eyes Only 26 Anything you have to say I'll put straight on the printer to London. 1972R. Busby Reasonable Man xviii. 161 Williams flicked the telex message... ‘When this came up on the printer it jogged my memory.’
d. Photogr. and Cinemat. An apparatus for producing positive prints from negatives.
1912F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures viii. 82 This is the Williamson printer. 1940G. G. Quarles Elem. Photogr. x. 135 The actual darkroom technique of making the exposure will depend upon the type of printer available. The simplest..is the simple hinged-back printing frame. 1951R. Spottiswoode Film & its Techniques viii. 196 The step printer (whether of the contact or optical type) is much like a camera or projector. The printing and printed films are pulled down one frame at a time..and held in front of a frame-sized aperture while exposure takes place. 1974L. Lipton Independent Filmmaking ix. 371 The highest quality masters are made with optical and contact step printers, although continuous contact machines are also used.
e. Computers. A device which produces a printed record of the input or output of a computer of which it is part or to which it is connected.
1946Math. Tables & Other Aids to Computation II. 103 The static outputs of a total of 80 decade counters and 16 PM counters are connected to the printer. 1949E. C. Berkeley Giant Brains viii. 137 The recorder consists of a printer, a reperforator, and a tape transmitter... The printer is a regular teletypewriter connected to the machine. 1962Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery V. 477/2 Routines intended for line-at-a-time printers do not yield optimal output for typewriters. 1974‘A. Haig’ Peruvian Printout 37 The high-speed printer in the New York computer room was still for a moment... Howard and Sam walked round the backs of the printers lifting the boxes of printout on to a rubber-wheeled trolley. 1975T. Allbeury Special Collection xix. 135 Their addresses were typed up on the fast printer in 3·4 seconds.
3. Trade. A cotton cloth made to be printed on; printing-cloth.
1864J. S. Buckle Manuf. Compend. p. ix, 36 inches wide Cambric Printer, 50 yards long. 1883Daily News 25 June 2/7 Cotton Goods... Mexicans, T-cloths, and printers are generally dull, with occasional sales at a slight decline.
4. attrib. and Comb. chiefly appositive, ‘that is a printer’ (sense 1 b), as printer-author, printer-journalist; printer-slotter, a machine used for printing on cardboard or other packaging materials.
1663Gerbier Counsel 105 Printer setters will commit faults, as appears by the Errataes at the end of books. 1888Pall Mall G. 13 Sept. 5/2 Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde command large sums,..and so..of many other printer-authors who combined both professions in those primitive times when labour was undivided. 1906Athenæum 25 Aug. 209/3 In 1618 the Community of Printer-Booksellers was sanctioned by the king [of France]. 1954TAPPI Feb. 144a/1 Another..development which appears very near is a printer-slotter arranged to handle aniline inks. 1957Ibid. Nov. 190a/2 A completely new design Langston printer-slotter is currently available in three sizes... This machine is of a split or opening construction so arranged that a two-color press can be easily converted..into a press of three, four, or even more stations. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 48/2 (Advt.), Corrugated box printer-slotter operator. Call Mr. Cherry.
b. With printer's: as printer's devil = devil 5 a; printer's flower = flower n. 5 c; printer's imprint = imprint n. 3; printer's mark, a monogram or other device used by a printer as a trade-mark.
c. With printers', as printers' fat (= fat n.2 5 b), printer's ink (see ink n.1 1), printer's pie (see pie n.4), printer's ream (see ream n.3), printer's roller, printer's varnish; printers' bible (see quot.); printers' gauge = gauge n. 12.
1898Home Mag. 31 Dec. 378/2 The so-called ‘*Printers'’ Bible, which contains..the..misreading..‘Printers have persecuted me without a cause’ (Psalm cxix. 161), ‘printers’ being substituted for ‘princes’.
1763H. Rose in Fam. Rose Kilravock (Spald. Club) 438 Harassed every morning by the *printer's devil. 1782F. Burney Let. to Mrs. Thrale 24 Apr., I think I could submit to be printer's devil, to get a sight of the next volume. 1873H. Spencer Stud. Sociol. (1882) 127 The hand implements used by ‘printer's-devils’ fifty years ago.
1898N. & Q. 9th Ser. II. 33/1 Type..occupying exactly three-sevenths of the open page, the remaining four-sevenths being ‘*printer's-fat’.
1820Ure Dict. Chem. (1823) 506/2 Good *printers' ink is a black paint, smooth and uniform in its composition. 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 478/1 Printers' ink may be considered as a black paint, writing ink..as a black dye.
Hence ˈprinterdom, the ‘world’ of printers.
1903Brit. & Col. Printer 19 Nov. 4/1 The list of present entrants is being spread abroad through printerdom. 1904Ibid. 10 Mar. 15/3 There are enough titled men in printerdom to give a little point to a story [etc.]. |