printed

1. 1
   adjective

   Appearing on paper as a result of printing with a press or computer printer.

   The printed brochures arrived from the press a week before the event.

   He still prefers a printed book to reading on a screen.

   Oppositehandwritten, digital, electronic

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of print.

   The newspaper printed a correction the next day.

   They have printed thousands of copies already.

   Note

   One regular -ed form does both jobs. It is a simple past in "they printed the notice." It is a past participle after have in perfect tenses and after be in passives, as in "it was printed overnight." Every meaning of the verb comes with it, including writing in separate letters, so "she printed her name" can describe careful handwriting as easily as a machine.

3. 3
   adjective

   Written by hand on paper in non-cursive letters rather than joined script.

   The teacher asked for printed names at the top of each page.

   He filled out the application in neat printed characters.

   Similarhandprinted, hand-printed

   Oppositecursive

   Note

   Handwriting comes in two styles, and this word names the one with separate letters, as opposed to cursive or joined script. Hand-printed and handprinted say the same thing more safely wherever the machine-made sense could be meant. The classic setting is a form or a letter, where a printed name sits beneath an illegible signature so the reader can tell who signed.

4. 4
   adjectiveabbreviationellipsis

   Ellipsis of 3D printed.

   The prototype's printed housing fit the circuit board perfectly.

   Engineers favor printed components when machining the part from metal would take too long.

   Note

   A shortening that only works once the context is clear. Among engineers and makers, printed alone means made on a 3D printer, and it is often paired with machined to set the two kinds of part side by side. Elsewhere, readers will hear the paper sense, so the full 3D printed is the safer choice on first mention. Behind it stands the verb 3D print, whose past participle has the same shape.

5. 5
   adjective

   Written as output to a data file by a program rather than shown on screen.

   The printed output landed in the log file instead of the terminal.

   Each printed record added a new line to the data file.

   Note

   A programmer's extension of the paper sense. A program's print routine writes lines of output, and when those lines go to a data file rather than a screen or standard output, they are printed in this sense. A beginner's Hello, World program produces exactly such printed lines. Because the word looks the same as its everyday use, technical prose usually has to say where the output went: file or terminal.

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