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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Press :: Press (n.) Specifically, a printing press..
Chalcography :: Chalcography (n.) The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing..
Reenter :: Reenter (v. t.) To cut deeper, as engraved lines on a plate of metal, when the engraving has not been deep enough, or the plate has become worn in printing..
Autochronograph :: Autochronograph (n.) An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time.
Wayz-goose :: Wayz-goose (n.) An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office.
Polyautography :: Polyautography (n.) The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography..
Register :: Register (n.) The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register, v. i. 2..
Logography :: Logography (n.) A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used..
Phytoglyphy :: Phytoglyphy (n.) See Nature printing, under Nature..
Royal :: Royal (n.) Printing and writing papers of particular sizes. See under paper, n..
Stereotypy :: Stereotypography (n.) The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.
Autotypography :: Autotypography (n.) A process resembling nature printing, by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate..
Xylography :: Xylography (n.) A method pf printing in colors upon wood for purposes of house decoration.
Minum :: Minum (n.) A small kind of printing type; minion.
Lithography :: Lithography (n.) The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic..
Inker :: Inker (n.) One who, or that which, inks; especially, in printing, the pad or roller which inks the type..
Palaeotype :: Palaeotype (n.) A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use.
Transprint :: Transprint (v. t.) To transfer to the wrong place in printing; to print out of place.
Blank :: Blank (a.) Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot..
Photorelief :: Photorelief (n.) A printing surface in relief, obtained by photographic means and subsequent manipulations..
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