What does 🖨️ Printer mean?
An office printer with paper coming out. It shows up when someone needs to print tickets, essays or boarding passes, and very often when complaining about paper jams and empty ink cartridges. Meme culture also uses it for the “money printer go brrr” joke about governments or companies creating cash out of thin air. In office chats it is shorthand for “I’ll send it to the printer”.
🖨️ Printer is an emoji from the Objects category (computers & electronics), added in Emoji 0.7 in 2014.
Example messages
🖨️ Printer on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Printer looks on each platform.
More computers & electronics emojis
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Printer emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Printer emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🖨️ is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :printer:.
When was the Printer emoji added?
🖨️ Printer was added in Emoji 0.7, released in 2014. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🖨️ look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Printer. The underlying code (U+1F5A8 U+FE0F) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.