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A printer is a subtractive-light output device which puts coloured ink on a suitable White surface.
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Invented at Canon laboratories around 1957.
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Invented at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center around 1970.
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Printer sizes are commonly in inch units. Metres = inches \(\times 0.0254\); inches = metres \(\times 39.37\); millimetres = inches \(\times 25.4\); inches = millimetres \(\times 0.0394\).
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More correctly, by fractional multiplication; but subtraction is the established usage.
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Parkin, A. (2016). 1-bit Printout. In: Digital Imaging Primer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85619-1_28
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