Printers

Examples

• When I missed understanding a word, there was no time to think what it was, so I made an illegible one to fill in, trusting to the printers to sense it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Before its introduction it was not possible to reproduce cheaply in printers’ ink shaded pictures like photographs, brush drawings, paintings, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But statistics do not show that as a whole there are fewer printers in the land. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• To-day, about three o'clock, the proofs of this paper arrived from the printers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Among the printers here, said he, you will improve yourself, and when you return to America you will set up to greater advantage. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Printers get six dollars and a half a month, but I have heard of a foreman who gets thirteen. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These two printers I found poorly qualified for their business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In New-York and Philadelphia the printers were, indeed, stationers, but they sold only paper, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Edison's inventive work on stock printers has left its mark upon the art as it exists at the present time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A soft, gelatinous composition, similar to that used in making printers’ rollers, is made and poured into shallow pans of the required size. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Pope and Edison invented a one-wire printer, and started a system of 'gold printers' devoted to the recording of gold quotations and sterling exchange only. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Calico printers are using half a pound of the acid to every 100 pounds of dressing starch, in order to entirely preclude the disagreeable odor arising after awhile from dry goods in store. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• There were printers in Italy by 1465, and Caxton set up his press in Westminster in 1477. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But come, friends, whether Quakers or cotton-printers, let us hold a peace-congress, and let out our venom quietly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Associated with Pope and Ashley, he followed up his work on telegraph printers with marked success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Wars still continue, and will, until men are civilised; but the vanguard of civilisation are the printers, and not the warriors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They were sensible of the difference; it strengthened the hands of our friends in the house; and they voted us their printers for the year ensuing. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He started in on stock-quotation printers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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