ink-jet printer

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Computers) A type of printer used as a peripheral device for computers, in which the color is applied to the paper by spraying liquid ink onto paper through tiny orifices in a moving print head, to construct the desired pattern on the paper by placing one dot or several dots at a time on the paper.

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• noun a printer that produces characters by projecting electrically charged droplets of ink