printer vs printer

printer and printer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
printer	Yes	No	No	No
printer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, printer is a hyponym of printer; that is, printer is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than printer:

printer: a machine that prints
printer: (computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing

As nouns, printer is a hypernym of printer; that is, printer is a word with a broader meaning than printer:

printer: (computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing
printer: a machine that prints

Other hypernyms of printer include computer peripheral, peripheral, peripheral device, printing machine.

printer (noun)	printer (noun)
a machine that prints	a machine that prints
(computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing	(computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing
someone whose occupation is printing	someone whose occupation is printing