• A device that prints text or illustrations you see on your monitor onto the paper.

   

• The quality of a printer's output is expressed in dpi or dots per inch.

   

• A printer rated at 300 dpi creates a 1 inch black square by placing 300 dots across by 300 rows high. This is 90,000 dots per square inch.

   

• types of printer available :

• dot-matrix

• ink jet

• laser printer

• thermal-wax