printingn.
/ˈprɪntɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈprɪn(t)ɪŋ/ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > [noun]
printinga1398
imprintingc1440
impression1444
characterizing1591
signature1605
impress1606
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 39v Þe brayne haþ þre holowȝ places..þis puppis, þe hinder partye..hath litil of marewȝ..þat he be meneliche hard, þat þe prentinge of schappis [L. formæ impressio] & of liknes be þere in þe lengþe I-holde.
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 542 She strengthed hit with the pryntyng of her seale.
1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 13 No manne vnder the degree of a barons sonne..shall weare any maner embrodery, prickyng or printing with golde, siluer, or sylke.
1587–8 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 265 James Achesoun..sinkis and makis irnes, instrumentis and matriceis, alsweill for prenting of silver as of lattoun.
1627 F. Bacon Sylva Sylvarum §844 You may not thinke, that in Printing of Wax, the Wax riseth vp at all.
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a. The action of print v. 8; the transfer of characters or designs on to paper, etc., by a mechanical process; the production of books, newspapers, magazines, etc., by this means.
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society > communication > printing > [noun]
print1499
impression1509
printing1509
impressing1530
press1579
imprimatur1640
typography1646
imprimery1681
presswork1728
imprimature1813
imprint1899
1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) cxiv. sig. Ccii Pryntynge [Fr. Librairie] is soo sowen aboute the worlde, & so many bokes of holy scryptures, that the ryche, and the poore is all one.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 258/2 Printyng of bokes, impression.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxv In which season [c1457], the craft of Printyng was first inuented in the citie of Mens in Germanie.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 438 Their printing is not by composing the letters as with vs; but..they make for euery leafe a Table or boord, with characters on both sides.
?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 413 A book from Mr Howell the Author sent to Wh[itelocke] for his judgem[en]t of it, before its printing.
1711 J. Strype Life M. Parker iv. sect. iv. 541 Our black English Letter was not proper for the Printing of a Latin Book.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 30 Caxton distinguished the books of his printing by the following particular device.
1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 207 The invention of printing..from moveable letters, has been referred by most to Gutenberg, a native of Mentz.
1875 tr. H. W. Vogel Chem. Light & Photogr. i. 11 This method..is still in use..especially in the printing of paper money.
1921 Brit. Printer Nov. 163/1 From an economic aspect photo-litho easily holds its own when compared with letterpress printing.
1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing xv. 234 In programming editing operations for printing, it is essential to consider how the form will look to the user.
2004 Slightly Foxed Winter 55 Commercial printing today—all normal printing—is by offset-litho.
b. The total number of copies (of a book, etc.) printed at one time; an impression.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > amount printed > amount printed at one time
edition?a1475
impression1570
run1878
printing1902
press run1907
print run1931
run-off1952
split run1961
1902 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 29 589 Fasc[icle] 8 may have contained a second printing of some of the previously published text.
1903 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 12 July David Gray's book of clever hunting stories, ‘Gallops’, is now in its sixth printing.
1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating xi. 251 Incorporating postpublication corrections into subsequent printings.
1984 G. Cardwell in ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad (new ed.) Note on Texts 997 The subtitle as misprinted on the title page, if it was misprinted, remained the same, however, in subsequent printings and editions.
2001 Elle June 109/1 The book..was published in January and is already in its third printing.
3. The action of stamping or imposing colour or designs on cloth, ceramics, etc. Cf. print v. 13, 14.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > printing
printing?1701
?1701 Answer Objections against restraining East-India Trade 1 The French..have..restrain'd the East-India Trade, and suppress'd the Printing of Callicoes.
1728 D. Defoe Plan Eng. Commerce 296 It is but a few Years ago since no such thing as painting or printing of Linen or Callicoe was known in England.
1771 J. Wedgwood Let. 11 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 115 These [plates] would do finely for printing, or painting with single flowers.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1029 Unsized paper fit for printing upon stoneware.
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 685/2 In printing, the white calico is batched at C, and the cloth D passes inwards over tension rails.
1939 E. A. J. Johnson Econ. Hist. Mod. Eng. i. 34 Printing of cotton by means of cylinder presses (as contrasted with laborious block presses) was perfected in 1783.
2005 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 27 July 28 [He] came up with the range as a means of diversifying from the firm's main market, commercial ceramic printing.
4. Photography. The production of a photographic print from a negative or transparency (cf. print v. 15).contact, projection printing: see the first element.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [noun] > printing
printing1853
1853 Family Herald 3 Dec. 510/2 The printing of positives will take from three or four minutes to one hour and a half, according to the sun.
1893 Photogr. Ann. 49 These papers are somewhat quicker in printing, but the surface will not bear the rough treatment which coagulated albumen would stand.
1922 Times 28 Jan. 7/5 (headline) Two colour printing in photography.
1984 J. Partridge One Touch Photogr. 101 A mask is used to hold the negative during printing.
2001 Navy News Sept. 11/3 The first element, of 12 weeks, teaches basic theory of light..before moving on to camera handling, defect photography, processing and printing.
5. nature-printing: see nature-printing n.
6. The action of taking a record of a person's fingerprints; = fingerprinting n.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > [noun] > fingerprint taken for purpose of > fingerprinting
printing1869
fingerprinting1891
genetic fingerprinting1984
1869 S. T. Davenport in Eng. Mech. 31 Dec. 377/2 This was effected by small inking-rubbers, known as thumbs and fingers, and the printing was called thumb-printing.
1966 Listener 1 Sept. 301/2 In the United States they have far greater fingerprinting output than we have..though they have not quite universal printing.
7. = print-through n. 1.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > quality of reproduced sound > accidental transfer of recorded signals
printing1949
print-through1953
1949 S. J. Begun Magn. Recording v. 98 Impregnated mediums exhibit ‘printing’ to an objectionable extent.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio iv. 84 (caption) Printing depends on the thickness of the tape base layer, as well as temperature and physical shock.
1988 M. Camras Magnetic Recording Handbk. ii. 76 Forward printing from a recorded face is somewhat less intense than printing from the back of a strongly recorded passage.
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C1. General attributive (chiefly in sense 2).
printing-colour n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1015 As to the stoneware..it is covered with a glaze composed of 13 parts of the printing-colour frit.
1999 Printing World 7 June 16/4 The ink is transferred via a blanket to the paper and as the drum turns, its latent image is erased and the cycle moves on to the next printing colour.
printing industry n.
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society > communication > printing > printing trade > [noun]
printerdom1875
printing industry1878
1878 Times 7 Jan. 11/5 Strikes..recorded as having occurred in the printing industry during 1877.
1954 Brit. Printer 66 36/1 The aniline process..has its origins in the paper converting field rather than in the general printing industry.
2001 Mod. China 27 294 The continual growth of the printing industry..facilitated the production, distribution and consumption of fiction.
printing machine n.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun]
print1499
press1535
stamp1548
printing press1553
printing machine1814
1814 Times 29 Nov. 3/2 Sir Christopher Wren's noblest monument is to be found in the building which he erected; so is the best tribute of praise which we are capable of offering to the inventor of the Printing Machine.
1917 M. T. Copeland Cotton Manuf. Industr. 315 The average weekly production per printing machine is about 75,000 yards in America, 20,000 in England.
1985 J. Chrétien Straight from Heart (1986) i. 9 There's not enough money in circulation because some stubborn banker in Ottawa won't start the printing machine.
printing material n.
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1649 Mercurius Elencticus No. 23. 178 That hee shall prefix the Authors name with his qualitie and place of Residence (hold there!) of the Licensers,..; upon paine of ten pounds, and to have his Printing Materialls defaced.
1772 Edinb. Advertiser 3 Mar. 141/2 The whole printing materials in said printing-house, consisting of several founts of types, printing presses, and other utensils.
1864 E. R. Charles Chrons. Schonberg-Cotta Family vii. 122 The time had come round to pay for some of the printing materials.
1999 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. for Conservation 38 127/1 Bromide paper eventually became the dominant printing material and is still in use today.
printing process n.
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1799 tr. C. Pajot des Charmes Art Bleaching Piece-Goods 221 The operator may not be exposed to the mortification of seeing the same designs return again..in a subsequent printing process.
1842 Times 6 Dec. 4/6 These having still to go through the printing process at home will yet afford some work for Glasgow hands.
1993 Guardian 15 Nov. ii. 16/3 It was ‘enhanced newsprint’, a hybrid of colour magazine and traditional newspaper. This involves heating the rollers during the printing process.
printing roll n.
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1692 R. Hooke Diary 6 Dec. in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. Oxf. (1935) X. 194 Hoskins shewd Flock-work printed in flowers..slode past under hot printing roll.
1867 Sci. Amer. 28 Dec. 404/1 The mechanism,..in combination with the movable printing or die roll, operating..in the manner..set forth.
2001 Valley Independent (Monessen, Pa.) 1 May 14 n/3 The second firm..is..a producer of anilox printing rolls.
printing roller n.
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1772 Brit. Patent 1007 The top printing roller and iron levers must then be raised.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 168 Printing a Cotton Gown... The inner roller revolves in the colour, and distributes it over the printing roller, which in its turn presses against the gliding cloth.
1932 Times 9 Nov. 17/3 An inking ‘ball’ which was the forerunner of the modern printing roller.
1994 Syracuse (N.Y.) Post–Standard 22 July e6/5 Most of the prints also have a lot of colors, each requiring a separate printing roller to deposit the ink.
printing room n.
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1727 J. Houghton Coll. Improvem. Husb. II. 428 The master printer is also to take care that his printing room have a clear and lofty light.
1846 S. F. Smith Theatr. Apprenticeship 33 The roof fell in while I was passing from the printing room, through a small entry, into the street.
2002 Sunday Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 3 Feb. b1 In the printing room, workmen operate several large offset printers.
printing tool n.
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1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 10 They say, Such a One has set up a Printing House,..thereby they mean he has furnish'd a House with Printing Tools.
1828 Delaware Patriot & Amer. Watchman 15 July 3/3 The people have too much virtue..to be led astray by the..calumnies of the men in power, aided by the pliant services of their printing tools.
1990 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 10 Apr. d1/4 She covered the print with a sheet of newspaper and rubbed with a baren—a printing tool that resembles a paddle for an air hockey table.
printing works n.
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1780 D. Rasbotham Thoughts on Use of Machines 9 Extraordinary gains cannot last long. This will, probably, very soon be the case with our printing works for Cottons.
1881 Harper's Mag. Dec. 44/1 His new offices in Fleet Street cost him £40,000, and he has just completed new printing-works in Whitefriars.
1979 J. Drummond Patriots ii. 13 My father was a printer and I spent a lot of time in printing works when I was a child.
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a. † printing body n. Obsolete a kind of glaze used in the manufacture of ceramics which are to be decorated with a printed design.† printing iron n. Obsolete an implement for stamping a mark on coins, etc.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1015 Three kinds of glazes are used in Staffordshire; one..for the finer pipe-clay ware to receive impressions, called printing body.
1852 Househ. Words 24 Apr. 120/2 One sort of glaze—called printing-body—is burnt into the better sort of ware before it is printed.
printing cloth n. cotton cloth made specially for printing.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > for specific uses > for printing
printing cloth1803
printer1829
print cloth1848
1803 Times 31 Aug. 4/4 (advt.) The following British Piece Goods, viz...2,900 [Pieces] Printing Cloths, white and printed Callicoes, Quiltings, &c.
1881 Manch. Guard. 18 Jan. Printing cloth of all kinds is also very steady, especially 72 reeds.
1998 Econ. Hist. Rev. 51 50 The finer printing cloth that came to dominate in the early nineteenth century declined to about three-quarters or two-thirds its 1770s price.
printing cylinder n. Printing a revolving cylinder in a printing machine which presses the paper against a flat forme of type or a plate, or on which type or a plate is mounted.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > cylinder > impression cylinder
printing cylinder1790
impression cylinder1830
1790 Brit. Patent 1748 A is the printing cylinder covered with woollen cloth.
1851 Times 8 May 3/1 A sheet was delivered to the machine..and..carried round the printing cylinder, brought into contact with the types, impressed upon them, carried out and delivered to a second man.
1913 Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Texas) 12 May 5/6 There are..merits for keeping the great ribbon of paper taut..as it is fed into the press and passed over and between rollers to reach the printing cylinder.
1971 D. Potter Brit. Elizabethan Stamps ii. 23 In the first stages of printing a multipositive is prepared, from which the printing cylinders are made.
printing drum n. Printing a revolving drum in a printing machine which guides the paper; (also) a roller or cylinder on which type is mounted.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > device for guiding paper
printing drum1839
dead-line1917
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1037 Then encompassing the left-hand side and under portion of the printing drum..it passes in contact with the..rollers.
1963 Mansfield (Ohio) News Jrnl. 25 Nov. 12/6 It is [a] heart warming experience to watch the personalized cards roll of[f] the printing drum.
1999 Printing World 7 June 17/1 A web is passed vertically through a bank of four-colour printing drums on either side of the web, the toner is glossed and fused, and the paper delivered.
printing frame n. Photography a holder (originally a shallow wooden box) in which sensitized paper is fixed beneath a negative and exposed to light to make a print.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > printer
printing frame1855
printer1912
projection printer1927
optical printer1944
1855 T. F. Hardwich Man. Photogr. Chem. 159 With sensitive paper..the picture will look well on its first removal from the printing-frame.
1910 Westm. Gaz. 26 Feb. 12/2 It is wonderful how little change there is in the principles of the printing-frame.
1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Mar. n42 I then borrowed a ‘lazy susan’ printing frame which allowed me to make six images on one piece of paper.
printing hammer n. Printing a hammer which strikes type mounted on a type wheel or print wheel against the paper to be printed.
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1873 F. Jenkin Electr. & Magn. xxii. 321 The paper is then struck against the letter on the ring by some special device... In one the mere pause of the dial suffices to allow the striking or printing hammer to act.
1966 Bucks County (Pa.) Courier 20 Jan. 14/1 The larger the surface area of the..symbol, the more energy or force..the printing hammer must exert.
1986 Computerworld (Nexis) 3 Nov. cb129 When a daisywheel printer prints the character ‘a’, it waits until the ‘a’ spoke is in front of the printing hammer, the spinning pauses for an instant, and the hammer comes down.
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society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > tools used in coining > stamping irons or dies
ironOE
standardc1473
trussellc1473
coining-irons1483
printing iron1525
coin1559
pile1562
matrix1626
hand press1638
coining press1688
coining-stamps1688
matrice1728
coin-stamp1850
hub1851
1525–6 in R. K. Hannay Acts Lord Council Public Affairs (1932) 239 That Schir Johne Gurlay keip the prenting irnis and punsionis undir twa keis.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Tudicula, a ladell, a pryntynge yron, wherwith vessell is marked.
a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1655) 128 The Congregation should render the Palace of Halirudhouse, with all the furnishing they found therein, redeliver the Minthouse and Printing Irons the next morning before ten of the clock.
printing key frame n. now historical a typewriter for producing embossed type, designed for use by blind people.The device was patented by Pierre Foucault in 1849 and was exhibited in London at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > kinds of
typograph1820
printing key frame1851
dial writer1883
stenograph1891
stenotyper1898
stenotype1913
Brailler1951
electronic typewriter1957
manual1972
1851 Cassell's Illustr. Exhibitor 52 Printing key frame by which the blind may write.
1853 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 504/2 He [sc. Foucault] has produced the Printing Key-Frame, a somewhat costly apparatus, sold at 800 francs, but which affords the means of printing off, with considerable rapidity, whatever the blind person wishes to convey to paper.
1982 J. C. Oates Bloodsmoor Romance xxxiv. 280 By the age of twenty, this remarkable young lady had acquired her first patent, for a minor improvement upon Foucault's printing key frame.
printing letter n. Typography (now historical) a printing type; a typeface.
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1580 in Bannatyne Misc. (1836) II. 204 Nynetene stane wecht of prenting lettres, price of the pund wecht, owrheid, nyne schillingis.
1676 in Bannatyne Misc. (1836) II. 283 Printinge letters.
1704 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1510 These three Books..the whole wrought or cut upon Wood; not Set or Composed with Printing Letter; and Printed with Writing Ink.
1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. ii. 22 The Sizes of Printing Letter would not perhaps have been carried lower than Brevier.
1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. ii. 11 The several bodies to which printing letters are cast..are nineteen in number.
1952 T. B. Reed Hist. Old Eng. Let. Foundries i. 48 The Old English was classed with the roman and italic by Moxon as one of the three orders of printing letter.
printing light n. Photography a natural or artificial light used for producing a positive print from a photographic or cinematographic negative.
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1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 267 I hope to be able to enable the professional..to be entirely independent of any such variable gentleman as the clerk of the weather and his good printing light.
1962 Lima (Ohio) News 8 July c8 Dachenbach made his own prints with the use of a kerosene lamp for a printing light.
1982 Film Quarterly 35 24/1 There is no question that when he chooses a printing light that this is a particular choice that is part of his personality.
printing mould n. Printing †(a) (perhaps) a set of matrices for type (cf. mould n.3 9) (obsolete); (b) an engraved plate made from metal, flexible plastic, or rubber, used as a template for printing on to textiles or paper (now rare).
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1664 R. Atkyns Orig. & Growth Printing 4 Thomas Bourchier, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, moved the then king (Hen. the 6th) to use all possible means for procuring a Printing-Mold..to be brought into this Kingdom.
1751 J. Kippax tr. J. de Uztáriz Theory & Pract. Commerce & Maritime Affairs II. lxxxix. 167 I assign the reasons why we should facilitate the importation of utensils for the manufactories of silk, wool and other materials, especially looms..printing molds, &c.
1951 Monumenta Nipponica 7 369 Because the new edition was made from the old printing moulds, only a few changes have been noticed in the main part of the book.
2005 Slovak Spectator (Nexis) 17 Jan. The museum in Levoea acquired a collection of printing moulds. These are made completely of wood or a combination of wood, leaves of metal, and nails.
printing negative n. Photography a negative used to print positives from.
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1856 Orr's Circle Sci.: Pract. Chem. 206 For the production of a printing negative.
1928 Sci. Monthly Mar. 272/2 Professor Barnard himself..made the printing negatives for the fifty-one photographs included in the later work.
2003 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 15 Jan. e3 This studio, like most studios, used their original negatives as their printing negatives unfortunately.
printing pad n. a pad on which paper is mounted to receive type pressed or struck on to it; an ink pad.
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1858 Sci. Amer. 17 Apr. 251/1 Moving the die from the inking pad to the printing pad and backwards by means of the spool.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1801/1 The type-wheel is continuously rotated by an independent motor, the circuit of the printing-hammer being closed when the letter is opposed to the printing-pad.
1934 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Northwestern 14 Dec. 14/2 Prepare a printing pad by cutting a piece of felt into a rectangle... Lay this in a flat old plate and pour printer's ink over it until it is evenly wet.
printing paper n. (a) paper used for printing on; (b) Photography sensitized paper on which photographs are printed.
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society > communication > printing > paper > [noun]
paper1389
printing paper1593
white paper1683
print paper1858
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > paper
printing paper1593
photographic paper1840
gelatin paper1851
surface paper1851
print paper1858
Saxe paper1864
tissue1873
carbon paper1878
bromide paper1885
print-out paper1893
mezzotype1894
printing out paper1895
silver paper1898
gaslight paper1899
multigrade1940
contact sheet1959
1593 Edinb. Test. XXV. f. 191, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Prenting Prenting paper price of the rym xxx s.
1663 Acts Parl. Scotl. VII. 467/1 All materialls for printing, as printing paper, oyle, potashes and the lyke.
1718 Boston News-let. 21 Apr. 2/2 (advt.) Writing and printing paper, brown osenbrigs, hats,..and sundry other sorts of European goods.
1864 Times 30 Sept. 4/3 The paper, when ‘sensitized’ as the photographers say, keeps perfectly for two or even three weeks—an immense boon to amateurs who can thus have their stock of printing paper ‘sensitized’ for them.
1990 Brit. Printer Nov. (back cover ) (advt.) Our latest uncoated woodfree printing paper.
1991 Pract. Photogr. Jan. 61/1 Because printing paper is extremely light sensitive, most activities must be conducted under safelighting.
printing plate n. a plate used in or for printing; spec. = plate n. 17a, 17b.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > metal plate
plate1663
graving1761
printing plate1774
Klischograph1955
1774 S. Dunn New & Gen. Introd. Pract. Astron. 17 I concluded that an accurately-divided printing plate..may easily be made to furnish degrees and minutes in the arch of its limb.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1602/1 Panicograph, a mode of obtaining printing-plates direct from a subject or transfer by applying it to the face of a plate of zinc, and building up a printing surface in relief corresponding to the design transferred.
1964 Gloss. Letterpress Rotary Printing Terms (B.S.I.) 16 Pre-make ready, the operations relating to the obtaining of a good printing result which take place before the printing plates or formes go to the press.
1997 Strategic Managem. Jrnl. 18 124/1 The output of the typesetter, either paper or film, is then used to create a printing plate.
printing shop n. (a) = printing house n. 1; †(b) a place where cloth is printed (obsolete).
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society > communication > printing > printing trade > [noun] > printing establishment
printing house1553
house?a1563
press1579
printing shop1589
printing office1600
print house1607
printery1638
typography1660
imprimery1663
chapel1688
print shop1845
1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde Ep. Ded. sig. A2v They..haue chosen a Salpeter man for their foreman, and a gunne powder house (an hell on earth) for their printing shop.
1790 Edinb. Advertiser 12 Jan. 40/3 (advt.) Sale of Calicoe Printing Grounds... A Printing Shop, Carpenter and Smiths Shops.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 215 The printing shop is an oblong apartment.
1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xviii. 295 I was coming out of a printing-shop one afternoon.
2000 Frederick (Maryland) Post 19 July b14/3 Damascus printing shop seeks F/T bindery worker.
printing type n. Typography = type n. 9a, 9b.
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [noun] > a type
letter1563
type1713
printing type1728
Della Robbia1917
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Register Among Letter-Founders, is one of the inner Parts of the Mould wherein the Printing-Types are cast.
1801 Deb. Congr. U.S. (1851) App. 1225 Articles paying twelve and a half per cent. ad valorem..[include] anvils, vises, and printing types.
1918 Frederick (Maryland) Post 25 June 6/3 Zinc is used extensively by manufacturers of printing type for newspapers and other publications.
1973 Univ. of Stirling Press Room (Univ. Stirling Libr.) The Press Room contains a large assortment of printing types, jobbing cases,..rules and leads.
printing union n. = print union n. at print n. and adj.2 Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > working > association of employers or employees > [noun] > trade union > unions of printers
printing union1870
Natsopa1917
print union1921
SOGAT1966
1870 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 6 June J. W. Starr has brought suit to foreclose a chattle mortgage on the entire stock and material of the Women's Co-operative Printing Union.
1971 H. Wilson Labour Govt. xxxviii. 787 One of the main groups of printing unions, SOGAT, put in a large wage-claim.
1999 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 114 119 The giant metalworkers' union, IG Metall, which along with the printing union IG Druck had spearheaded earlier reductions in weekly hours.
printing wheel n. a wheel or disc having printing types round the rim that can be brought into position by rotating the disc.
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1856 Sci. Amer. 27 Sept. 19/2 Press..a paper for printing purposes against the periphery of a revolving printing wheel with your hand [etc.].
1888 Times 12 Jan. 9/7 The recorder practically consists of a small motor driving a printing wheel.
1949 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 7 July 2/3 There revolves a small..wheel which I shall call the printing wheel,..on the edge of which are cut the letters of the alphabet.
1998 Wood Technology Jan.–Feb. 57/2 This is linked to a printing wheel that passes over all billet stock, numbering each billet and flange.
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printing out n. Photography the production of a black and white image by means of contact printing without chemical development, often using daylight; cf. to print out 1 at print v. Phrasal verbs.
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sun painting1839
sun-printing1853
surface process1865
contact printing1876
silver-printing1878
pigment printing1879
bromide printing1885
printing out1889
screen process1890
gaslight printing1899
projection printing1923
1889 Times 4 Sept. 4/1 Photography in natural colours by a printing-out process—by which I mean by the action of light alone—is not only possible, but has been done.
1955 Sci. Monthly Mar. 165 (caption) Photographic emulsion crystals at two stages of printing-out.
1976 K. I. Jacobson & R. E. Jacobson Imaging Syst. ii. 55 Exposure to light of lower intensity for longer periods..causes these internal latent images to act as centres for the printing out of silver.
printing out paper n. Photography specially sensitized paper for use in printing out, typically having a greater tonal range than developing paper; abbreviated P.O.P.
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printing paper1593
photographic paper1840
gelatin paper1851
surface paper1851
print paper1858
Saxe paper1864
tissue1873
carbon paper1878
bromide paper1885
print-out paper1893
mezzotype1894
printing out paper1895
silver paper1898
gaslight paper1899
multigrade1940
contact sheet1959
1895 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 2/2 (advt.) A fresh arrival of Ilford dry plates, printing out paper and other photographic supplies.
1918 J. R. Roebuck Sci. & Pract. of Photogr. vi. 127 Photographers generally still rank prints on printing out paper ahead of prints on developing paper, but the former requires more time and labor.
2005 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 20 Nov. d8 Huber starts a print by sandwiching together a negative and special paper called POP (Printing Out Paper) in a split frame... This frame is put under ultraviolet light, usually the sun, for about five minutes.
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printingadj.
/ˈprɪntɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈprɪn(t)ɪŋ/ That prints (in various senses of the verb).
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printing1700
1700 E. Ward Journey to H— ii. 15 This Arrogance inflam'd the Printing Crew, And from their Tongues these sharp reflections drew.
1768 E. Lloyd Powers of Pen (ed. 2) 32 Use your old one [sc. pen] to engage The printing Dunces of the Age.
1820 J. Clare Early Poems (1989) 406 There your little feet may stand Safely on the printing sand.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh v. 210 My dear Lord Howe, you shall not speak To a printing woman who has lost her place,..compliments, As if she were a woman.
1968 Gloss. Terms Offset Lithogr. Printing (B.S.I.) 28 Printing pressure, the pressure applied at the point of contact between two printing surfaces to transfer ink from one surface to the other.
1995 Zaurus in tty mode & Cellular in comp.sys.palmtops (Usenet newsgroup) 7 May After connect, one got a slowly printing line of ‘garbage’ chars. [= characters].
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printing telegraph n. now historical a telegraph system in which the received messages are printed on to paper.
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printing telegraph1841
telotype1850
printer1859
pantelegraph1860
magneto-printer1883
typo-telegraph1888
teletyper1895
telecryptograph1904
teletype1904
teletypewriter1904
Creed1911
teleprinter1911
teletypesetter1928
telex1968
1841 Wright & Bain Brit. Patent 9204 In Sheet 3 we exhibit a side view..of an electro-magnetic printing telegraph.
1865 Times 26 June 12/2 Its main features may be said to be based upon the printing telegraph, which delivers its printed message by the relative positions of long and short dashes on the tape.
1929 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 8 267 Commercial telegraph operation..is carried on almost exclusively by two well known methods, manual morse and printing telegraph.
1999 R. Campbell in I. B. Cohen & G. W. Welch Makin' Numbers i. 125 Once the decision had been made to see whether ‘printing telegraph’ type of equipment could be used, we contacted Western Union and had initial discussions.
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(printing or printer's ink)
a. The coloured (usually black) fluid ordinarily employed in writing with a pen on paper, parchment, etc. ( writing ink), or the viscous paste used for a similar purpose in printing (printing or printer's ink).When the word is used without qualification, the ordinary black writing-fluid is commonly meant. The various kinds of ink are distinguished by their colour, as black, red, blue, gold ink, etc.; by the purpose which they serve, as copying, lithographic, marking, printing (or printer's), writing ink; by some special quality, as indelible, invisible, sympathetic ink; by the place of manufacture, as China, Indian Ink.
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inkc1250
arnementc1300
writing ink1548
magnetic ink1953
society > communication > printing > inking equipment > [noun] > ink
printing ink1553
ink1569
printers' inka1631
c1250 Meid Maregrete lxi So boc is writen wid enke.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 648 Es nan forsoth wit hert mai think, Ne writer nan mai write wit inc [Trin. MS. enke] Þe mikel ioy.
c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 194 On vche braunche was a word of þreo maner enkes; Gold and Seluer he seis and Asur forsoþe.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 91 We how not to honor þe gospel þus, þat is to sey, þe henk, or þe parchemyn.
1480 W. Caxton Descr. Scotl. (1520) 1/2 They wolde somtyme..peynt them with ynke or with other peinture or coloure.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxv Some..peynten with colours ryche, and some with vers, as with red ynke, and some with coles and chalke.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 637 Guthenlergius,..within .xvj. yeres after did inuent the ynke which the Printers now vse.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A6 Deformed monsters, fowle, and blacke as inke.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 285 Such a thinne kinde of inke or vernish, that it did..darken the.. glasing colours.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 142 The Indians dye Skins, and make Ink with them.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Indian, or Chinese Ink, is an admirable Composition... It is not fluid like our Writing-Inks.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Printing-Ink is made of Nut-Oil or Linseed-Oil, Turpentine and a kind of Black.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Every sort of liquor with which a person may write so that the letters do not appear till there is some particular means used to give them a colour different from that of the paper, are called by the name of sympathetic Inks.
1765 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. (at cited word) Composition of common black Ink. Preparation of Red Ink from Vermilion.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 743 The expressed juice of the petals is a good blue ink.
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) ‘Chemical Indelible Ink’, sold for the purpose of marking linen.
1829 T. Hood Dream Eugene Aram in Gem 1 114 A sluggish water, black as ink, The depth was so extreme.
1855 T. Carlyle Prinzenraub in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1872) VII. 158 Battles..fought only by ink.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 151 The whole sky on one side of the heavens was as black as ink.
1899 Brit. Printer XII. 62 When..type here and there refuses to take ink.
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