No, it is an input. The data goes in to the computer from the scanner, not out of the computer to the scanner.
Scanner is a input device. Printer is one of the output device. All like keyboard, scanner, mouse are input devices.
Scanner can never be an output device! You most understand that scanner, falls into input device that helps to take input from the user into the computer.
A scanner is an input device because it sends (or 'inputs') information to the computer.
output
A simple printer is an output device. A printer/scanner is both an input and an output device.
No, it is classed as an output device - same as the computer's monitor. Both of which show the result of your input from the keyboard, etc.
Input
A plotter is an output device, like a printer. A scanner is an input device, like a camera.
It could be seen as an input device (it acts as a scanner), and output device (it acts as a printer), or as a transmission device.
A scanner is an output device because it doesn't receive data it only sends out data.
A scanner is an input device, like a microphone. You cannot send data from your computer to the scanner, only from the scanner to the computer.
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