printer

printer
printer c.1500, agent noun from PRINT (Cf. print). In the computer sense, from 1946. Printer's bible (c.1702) so called from mistaken substitution of printers for princes in Psalm cxix:161, which led to the misreading:
Printers have persecuted me without a cause.

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