1. A printer for printing time-based media, the printer comprising: a printing sub-system within the printer for receiving and printing standard document formats; an interface within the printer that receives the time-based media from a media source, the interface coupled to the printing sub-system; a multimedia processing system within the printer and coupled to the interface that issues a command that controls the media source to transmit the time-based media to the multimedia processing system and that distributes, between the multimedia processing system within the printer and a system external to the printer, a determination of an electronic representation and a printed representation of the time-based media; a first output device, within the printer and in communication with the multimedia processing system to receive the electronic representation, for producing a corresponding electronic output from the electronic representation of the time-based media; and a second output device, within the printer and in communication with the multimedia processing system to receive the printed representation, for producing a corresponding printed output from the printed representation of the time-based media.