How to spell printer

Printer is spelled P-R-I-N-T-E-R.

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What it means: A machine that puts ink or images onto paper.

In a sentence: The printer makes colorful pictures on paper.

Same family: printing, printed, reprint, printout. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Printer comes from the verb 'print,' which goes back to Latin 'premere,' meaning 'to press.' Early printers literally pressed ink onto paper with heavy machines, so the word still carries that idea of pressing text or images onto a page.

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