Definition of printing

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Printing (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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Electro-tint :: Electro-tint (n.) A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing..
Impose :: Impose (v. t.) To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc..
Frisket :: Frisket (a.) The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.
Anastatic :: Anastatic (a.) Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.
Chapel :: Chapel (n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.
Text :: Text (n.) A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text..
Platen :: Platen (n.) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
Canon :: Canon (n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
Rule :: Rule (a.) A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work..
Bookwork :: Bookwork (n.) Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work..
Lithotype :: Lithotype (v. t.) To prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy. See Lithotypy.
Counter :: Counter (v. t.) A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations..
Pause :: Pause (n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses..
Stoned :: Stone (n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone..
Photorelief :: Photorelief (n.) A printing surface in relief, obtained by photographic means and subsequent manipulations..
Underlay :: Underlay (v. t.) To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2..
Gripper :: Gripper (n.) In printing presses, the fingers or nippers..
Yt :: Yt () an old method of printing that (AS. /aet, /aet) the y taking the place of the old letter thorn (/). Cf. Ye, the..
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work..
Logography :: Logography (n.) A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used..
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