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
  • Arthur Griffith was born in Dublin in 1871, the son of a printer.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Kenny added that the gun in this case may have been made on a 3D printer.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Then on the exhale, the first ticket sputtered out of the printer.
    Fatima Ali, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2022
  • George and his younger brother Jim, a printer, in Missouri, in the mid-fifties.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 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
  • Sheila runs to the bank and finds out there’s $57.13 left in their account (love the dot-matrix printer in this scene).
    Rose Maura Lorre, Vulture, 18 June 2021
  • 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
  • To obtain a ghost gun, a person would need to have access to a 3D printer.
    Sarah Westwood, Washington Examiner, 30 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • So everyone who sits behind me has to get up to go to the printer, to the bathroom, go to lunch, come in the morning.
    Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • It is being processed right now at the printer and mailer.
    Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2021
  • Malaika Brown, who lives in Chicago in the nineteen-nineties, is a printer and a graphic artist.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 June 2021
  • Below are two files available for download, one where some of the pages are flipped upside down, because there doesn’t seem to be one standard way for printers to work.
    Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Bambu Lab, the company behind my favorite 3D printers, has given itself one hell of a week.
    Sean Hollister, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2025

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