W. Bruce Cameron

3D printers give us what we've all been craving: another reason to talk to technical support. When you finally get the thing working, though, you'll be able to print out your grocery list as a cube! When you look up directions online, you can print the map out on a globe!

American Author

Herb Ritts

I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

American Photographer

Gary Kemp

I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.

British Musician

Hansie Cronje

The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.

South African Athlete

Joe Eszterhas

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

Hungarian Writer

Peter Diamandis

Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away.

American Businessman

Benjamin Franklin

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

American Politician

Dale Dauten

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.

French Artist

Bre Pettis

We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers.

The word 'printer' refers to an electronic device in tech discussions or when talking about office equipment.

Technology Context

There are different types of printers such as inkjet, laser, and 3D, each serving different purposes.

Variety of Printers

Modern printers can often connect wirelessly, a detail which might come up in conversation about setting up printers.

Printer Connection

The word 'printer' refers to professionals working in large-scale print operations, like publishing houses or newspapers.

Industrial Scale

Historically, printers were highly skilled craftsmen, and the term still carries that connotation of skill in publishing.

Historical Craft

Printers may specialize in different types of printing, such as books, newspapers, or posters, which affects their job context.

Specialized Work

 It's completely mechanical, again, a printer. It prints just numbers, because he was obsessed with numbers, but it does print onto paper, and it even does word wrapping, so if you get to the end of the line, it goes around like that. You also need graphics, right? I mean, if you're going to do anything with graphics, so he said, "Well, I need a plotter. I've got a big piece of paper

John Graham-Cumming: The...

 again a printer and it prints just numbers because he was obsessed with numbers and but it does print onto paper and even does word wrapping so to get to underline it goes round like that and you also need graphics right I mean if you going to do anything with graphics so he said well I need a plotter I got a big piece of paper an ink pen and I'll

The greatest machine...

 One day, I was invited to an important event, and I wanted to wear something special and new for it. So I looked through my suitcase and I couldn't find anything to wear. I was lucky to be at the technology conference on that day, and I had access to 3D printers. So I quickly designed a skirt on my computer,

Forget shopping. Soon...

 to change and make up your mind is the enemy of synthetic happiness and I'm gonna show you why Dilbert already knows of course you're reading the cartoon as I'm talking dogbert's tech-support how come eh I abuse you my printer prints a blank page after every document why would you

The surprising science...

 said if we could fly some 3d printers on a zero-gravity airplane and if they can work they should be in space the first real breakthrough for the company was when we actually you know built to build what we thought was a gravity independent 3d printing technology and

Made in Space: 3-D...

 and threw a bucket of water at it. Presto! Then when we went to press, the printer put a spot gloss on the ink and it really looked like it was running. Not long after it came out, Augusten was waylaid in an airport and he was hiding out in the bookstore

The hilarious art of...

 A computerized image or file guides the placement of the strands, either onto a flat surface or into a liquid bath that’ll help hold the structure in place until it stabilizes. These printers are fast, producing the meniscus in about half an hour,

How to 3D print human...

 The pen looks like a highlighter and contains a solution of potassium iodide and elemental iodine. It reveals of the presence of starch, which is commonly used to strengthen regular printer paper, but won't be found in real money.

How to spot a...

 the next piece of the puzzle he owned the 3d printer and taught me everything I needed to get started I quickly treating bottle some simple legs and printed them with Rick's help combining that with what I picked up at

How I made the ultimate...

 it'll raise these three Daisy lives at printers hook the milk from a Jersey cow is extremely rich perfect for Buffalo