printouts

Documents from printers

Printouts are documents produced by a printer, especially from a computer.

The term emerged with office computing and carries a slight whiff of that era—you're more likely to hear it from someone who remembers when getting information onto paper was noteworthy.

She handed me a printout of the spreadsheet.

The printouts were stacked on his desk.

physical

paper

Pressed pulp for writing

toner · ink · inkjet · cartridge · feed · stack · pile · bundle · staple · collate

documents

reports

Formal written findings

brochures · booklets · pamphlets · manuals · instructions · forms · charts · diagrams · spreadsheets · invoices

distribution

handout

Free distribution to recipients

collated · sorted · batch · pickup · mailroom · pigeonhole · distribute · disseminate · posting · routing

formatting

layout

Spatial arrangement of elements

orientation · landscape · portrait · resolution · draft · quality · spacing · headers · footers · pagination

copying

photocopying

Reproducing documents mechanically

carbon · reproduce · replicate · collate · enlargement · reduction · duplex · single-sided · double-sided · grayscale

Categories
Opposites
medium/format

printoutselectronic documents

Computer-stored written files

soft copies · e-documents · PDFs · electronic records · emails

direction of data flow

printoutsscans

Reads rapidly or images

inputs · uploads · data entry · scanned documents · keyboard input

Family

printout

Familiarity
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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G