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*in ‘computing’, a printer is a ‘peripheral’ which makes a ‘persistent human-readable representation’ of [‘graphics’ / ‘text’] on [‘paper’ / similar ‘physical media’]*
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(‘the world’s first computer printer’ was a 19th-century mechanically driven apparatus invented by ‘charles babbage’ for his ‘difference engine’)
(the first ‘commercial printers’ generally used mechanisms from ‘electric typewriters’ and ‘teletype machines’)
(the demand for ‘higher speed’ led to the development of new systems specifically for ‘computer use’)
(in the ‘1980s’ were ‘daisy wheel systems’ similar to ‘typewriters’, ‘line printers’ that produced similar ‘output’ but at much higher ‘speed’, and ‘dot matrix systems’ that could mix ‘text’ and ‘graphics’ but produced relatively low-quality ‘output’)
(the ‘plotter’ was used for those requiring ‘high quality line art’ like ‘blueprints’)
(the introduction of the low-cost ‘laser printer’ in 1984 with the first ‘HP LaserJet’, and the addition of ‘PostScript’ in the next year’s ‘Apple LaserWriter’, set off a revolution in ‘printing’ known as ‘desktop publishing’)
(‘laser printers’ using ‘PostScript’ mixed ‘text’ and ‘graphics’, like ‘dot-matrix printers’, but at ‘quality levels’ formerly available only from ‘commercial typesetting systems’)
(by ‘1990’, most simple printing tasks like ‘fliers’ and ‘brochures’ were now created on ‘personal computers’ and then ‘laser printed’; ‘expensive offset printing systems’ were being dumped as ‘scrap’)
(the ‘HP Deskjet’ of ‘1988’ offered the same advantages as ‘laser printer’ in terms of ‘flexibility’, but produced somewhat lower quality output (depending on the ‘paper’) from much less expensive mechanisms)
(‘inkjet systems’ rapidly displaced ‘dot matrix’ and ‘daisy wheel’ printers from the market)
(by the ‘2000s’, ‘high-quality printers’ of this sort had fallen under the ‘$100 price point’ and became ‘commonplace’)
(the rapid update of ‘internet e-mail’ through the ‘1990s’ + into the ‘2000s’ has largely displaced the need for ‘printing’ as a means of moving ‘documents’)
(and now a wide variety of ‘reliable storage systems’ means that a ‘physical backup’ is of little benefit today)
(even the desire for ‘printed output’ for ‘offline reading’ while on ‘mass transit’ or ‘aircraft’ has been displaced by ‘e-book readers’ + ‘tablet computers’)
(today, ‘traditional printers’ are being used more for special purposes, like printing photographs or artwork, and are no longer a ‘must-have peripheral’)
(starting around 2010, 3D printing became an area of intense interest, allowing the creation of physical objects with the same sort of effort as an early laser printer required to produce a brochure)
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(these devices are in their ‘earliest stages of development’ and have not yet become commonplace)
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