Printing
['prɪntɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution.
(noun.) text handwritten in the style of printed matter.
(noun.) reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Print
(n.) The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Typography.
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Examples
- But in the better grades of material the printing is well done, and the color designs are fairly fast, and a little care in the laundry suffices to eliminate any danger of fading. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Before the invention of the art of printing, a scholar and a beggar seem to have been terms very nearly synonymous. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The art of printing has seen great changes since Gutenberg’s day. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It is still difficult to assign the honour of priority in the use of the simple expedient of printing for multiplying books. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Let us assume that we have a painting or a drawing in colors from which it is desired to produce a set of printing plates to produce that drawing in facsimile. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These hammers are inked from a pad, and at a central point deliver a printing blow on the paper below. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In the Printing Trade. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This remained, however, a mere suggestion until many years later, and the one-side printing continued. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The first addressographs were intended for printing names and addresses consecutively on envelopes and post cards. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This gentleman, a stranger to me, stopped me one day at my door, and asked me if I was the young man who had lately opened a new printing-house. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In 1838 Prof. Jacobi announced his galvano-plastic process for the production of electrotype plates for printing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The lithographic press somewhat resembles in form an iron printing press, but differs from it greatly in its mode of action. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Collateral with the development of the printing press are three important branches of the art--stereotyping, paper making, and type setting. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Typewriters for short hand characters, and for foreign languages, and for printing on record and blank books, are also among the modern developments of this art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The roar of the guns at Waterloo and the click of the first power printing press in London were nearly simultaneous. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Many magazines print two colors for covers and inside pages, instead of full four-color printings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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