Printer vs. Fax

Printernoun

One who makes prints.

Faxnoun

The hair of the head.

Printernoun

The operator of a printing press, or the owner of a printing business.

Faxnoun

A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.

Printernoun

A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.

Faxverb

To send a document via a fax machine.

Printernoun

One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman.

Faxnoun

duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio

Printernoun

someone whose occupation is printing

Faxverb

send something via a facsimile machine;

‘Can you fax me the report right away?’;

Printernoun

(computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing

Fax

Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (the latter short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The original document is scanned with a fax machine (or a telecopier), which processes the contents (text or images) as a single fixed graphic image, converting it into a bitmap, and then transmitting it through the telephone system in the form of audio-frequency tones.

Printernoun

a machine that prints

Printernoun

a person whose job or business is commercial printing.

Printernoun

a machine for printing text or pictures, especially one linked to a computer.