A Printer is a peripheral which produces a text or graphics of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper or transparencies.
Printers are routinely classified by the printer technology they employ; numerous such technologies have been developed over the years.
Based on the Print quality printers are characterized as follows,
- Toner-based printers
- Liquid inkjet printers
- Solid ink printers
- Dye-sublimation printers
- Inkless printers
Source: Wikipedia (Printer)