print
     n 1: the result of the printing process; "I want to see it in
          black and white" [syn: {black and white}]
     2: a picture or design printed from an engraving
     3: a visible indication made on a surface; "some previous
        reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks"; "paw
        prints were everywhere" [syn: {mark}]
     4: a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version
        of it)
     5: a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by
        engraved rollers)
     6: a printed picture produced from a photographic negative
        [syn: {photographic print}]
     v 1: put into print; "The newspaper published the news of the
          royal couple's divorce"; "These news should not be
          printed" [syn: {publish}]
     2: write as if with print; not cursive
     3: make into a print;  "print the negative"
     4: reproduce by printing [syn: {impress}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0

print v. To output, even if to a screen. If a hacker says that a
   program "printed a message", he means this; if he refers to printing a
   file, he probably means it in the conventional sense of writing to a
   hardcopy device (compounds like `print job' and `printout', on the other
   hand, always refer to the latter). This very common term is likely a
   holdover from the days when printing terminals were the norm,
   perpetuated by programming language constructs like {C}'s printf(3). See
   senses 1 and 2 of {tty}.


Source: The Jargon File