To cover (types, etc.) with ink in order to print from them.

technical, expressing various operations in the arts; as in Printing, to ink the forms with beaters; in Bookbinding, Paper-making, Flax-dressing, etc.

With adverbs, as ink in (or over), to go over or trace in ink (lines previously drawn in pencil); ink out, to obliterate with ink; ink up, to cover…

transitive. To ink again. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. Printing. To distribute (ink) in preparation for printing. Esp. in to run up colour.