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
  • One of them has to be Peter Koch, printer of the 30-pound book in lead.
    Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 12 Nov. 2020
  • In this case, the gelatin offers enough give for the needle of the 3D printer to slide through.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 23 Nov. 2020
  • To do that, click on the printer icon on the top right of the page, and then pick either the left or right page.
    cleveland, 31 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Researchers will need to learn how to use both types in a 3D printer.
    Sven Bilén, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The issue would be stranded at the printer in Lafayette.
    NOLA.com, 7 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • The two lived as happily as a printer and a human could.
    Joanna Stern, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • In an adorable video shared on March 31, the tiny pup eagerly waits for a sheet of paper to emerge from a printer.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Backstroke flags are held in place with fishing wire, and the assistant coach’s husband, José Preciado, used his 3D printer to make red, regulation 15-meter markers for the team.
    Cara Anthony, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025

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