How to Use printer in a Sentence

printer

noun
  • I need a new printer for my office.
  • The manuscript was sent to the printer yesterday.
  • Benjamin Franklin was originally a printer.
  • At 6 o’clock, the doors open just as the menus come out of the printer.
    Marcus Crowder -, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The ballots have to be finished and sent to the printer by the 7th of April.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 Mar. 2022
  • But there tends to be a printer and a cup of coffee next to it.
    Diana Budds, Curbed, 31 Oct. 2022
  • They were told to scan five of them on the printer and read the numbers on others.
    cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Then on the exhale, the first ticket sputtered out of the printer.
    Fatima Ali, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2022
  • To pull off such feats, the pair employ plastic molds made with the help of 3-D printers.
    Alexa Brazilian Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi, New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • The slowing of the money printer was our cue to take profits.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • When the orders started rolling out of the printer, Jeff told Cameron Kriz, one of the line cooks, to teach me how to make an omelet.
    Joel Stein, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The committee’s budget bill, more than 1,000 pages, now goes to the printer.
    Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The fire ones then go to the master printer, who has [all] kinds of brilliant strategies for the color and tones.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • This mini printer is small enough to fit in a purse, sling bag, or back pocket.
    Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Unplug the printer, then find the Reset button on the back or bottom.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The printers differ from the idea of the forever mouse in that the HP hardware belongs to HP, not the user.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
  • It can also be used as a work-from-home space with a desk, printer, Wi-Fi, and mini fridge.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2022
  • Or call the mother ship overhead and put in an order for its 3D printer.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • And then there’s the challenge of convincing consumers to buy a drink printer.
    Michael Wolf, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • There’s nothing wrong with a printer as a piece of hardware, for instance.
    Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Alquist is a construction firm that buys or leases the printers.
    Jim Morrison, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The first is a plastic gun that can be made with a 3D printer and usually fires one bullet.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • If you've been burned by high refill prices from other printers, the ET-2800 lacks that sticker shock.
    K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 11 July 2023
  • This printer can scan photos, but also print, copy, and fax.
    Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
  • From the story: With access to online models and a 3D printer, the group — which didn't even know if their plan would work — hit a home run.
    Camille C. Knox, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2023
  • It’s where the company – then known as Hewlett-Packard – invented the inkjet printer in 1984.
    oregonlive, 29 July 2022
  • Strung across one shelf of 3D printers is a black flag, a take on Blackbeard’s (apocryphal) pirate flag.
    Justin Ling, WIRED, 2 May 2024
  • Madame Delacroix is sewing Penelope's drafts into the hems of gowns and delivering them to the printer.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The structure was printed on-site with Alquist's own 3D printer and involved extruding a cement-like mixture out of a nozzle in layers to build up the basic structure of the building.
    Adam Williams, New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The rule is intended to address a proliferation of crimes using ghost guns, which can be made from 3D printers or kits and parts available to buy online.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2024

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