adj
Created by using a 3D printer.
n
(hardware, printing) A device for making three-dimensional solid objects from a digital model.
n
(printing technology) acoustic inkjet printing
n
(printing) A kind of job press.
n
(printing) A method used to provide a measured amount of ink to a flexo printing plate, involving a hard cylinder whose surface is covered in tiny cells that capture the ink.
n
(film) The first graded print of an edited film combining sound and picture, which is created for the client to view and approve; his answer decides when the rest of the copies of the film are printed or not.
n
A bookbinder's press for stamping titles and designs on the covers of books.
n
A very early proof impression of an engraving, etc., often distinguished by the artist's signature.
n
(printing, slang, obsolete) A compositor.
n
Printing on the reverse side of a poster, postage stamp, or other printed material, usually for purposes of identification.
n
(printing) A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
n
(printing, attributive) A printing and photoengraving technique dating from the late 19th century, involving coloured dots or some other simple repeating pattern, spaced or overlapping, to produce more complex mixed colours.
v
(printing, archaic) To use the Ben Day printing and photoengraving technique.
v
(transitive) To 3D print a biological structure (a tissue, an organ, etc.) using a bioprinter.
n
A device that performs bioprinting.
n
A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
n
(printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
n
A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable type.
n
Woodblock printing, a style of printing (common in China and Japan) from engraved boards by means of a sheet of paper laid on the linked surface and rubbed with a brush.
n
A reproduction of the material submitted for printing, computer-generated or printed from film, provided to the customer for approval before the material is printed.
n
A print produced with this process.
n
A person or machine that produces blueprints.
n
(printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters letters from a column or page in making corrections.
n
(printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
n
(printing) A hand printing tool, in the US often a roller, used to spread a thin even layer of ink. Early brayers, consisting of a vertical cylinder with a single handle, were designed to break up thick inks before spreading.
v
(printing, dated) To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.
n
(historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
n
The process of pressing paper, etc. in a calender.
n
A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pressure applied on the top sheet (by a pen or typewriter) causes every carbon paper to release its carbon cover, thus reproducing the writing on the subjacent layers of paper.
n
A form of paper that is coated with a substance on the reverse and so does not need a separate sheet of carbon paper in order to produce copies
n
(computing) A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
n
Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.
n
(obsolete) An engraving.
n
(dated) Any of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.
n
(printing) A stereotype (printing plate).
n
(printing, obsolete) An association or companionship of printers.
n
(film) A film print including both the picture and the soundtrack.
v
(printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.
n
(printing, historical) A thin slip of brass or steel, against which the type is arranged in a composing stick, or by the aid of which stickfuls or handfuls or type are lifted.
n
(dated) Continuous form paper; sheets of paper connected together in order to feed through a dot-matrix printer.
n
(photography) A print made by exposing the printing paper to light through a negative that is placed directly onto it.
n
A machine that copies graphical material; a duplicator.
v
To engrave on and print from a copperplate.
n
A shop that offers photocopying and printing services.
n
(historical) a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.
n
(historical) A machine for taking an exact copy, by pressure, of a document written in special ink on special paper.
n
Alternative spelling of copy shop [A shop that offers photocopying and printing services.]
n
(printing) The inverted image of an original proof.
n
(computing) Alternative spelling of daisywheel printer [(computer hardware) A printer that operates by striking the page with moulded characters from a rotating circular arrangement, obsolete since the late 1980s.]
n
(computer hardware) A printer that operates by striking the page with moulded characters from a rotating circular arrangement, obsolete since the late 1980s.
n
(archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.
n
(printing) A high-speed industrial digital printer.
n
(printing, historical) An appliance, such as a roller, in a printing press, for distributing ink.
n
(printing) A metal blade used in printing for scraping off excess ink or toner from the printing roll.
n
Alternative form of drypoint [(uncountable) A technique of intaglio printmaking similar to engraving in which an image is incised into a plate by scratching the surface with a hard, sharp metal (or diamond) point.]
n
(countable) A print made using this technique.
adj
duplex, tray, network: In relation to the selling of laser printers, a designation that a printer has duplex (double sided printing) capability and paper trays and is networkable.
n
(printing) A device, usually in the form of an oscillating roller, for transferring ink from a source to the ink train rollers in a controlled manner.
n
(humanities, printing) The first printed edition of a work previously only published in manuscript form.
n
(printing, art) The process of making a small number of prints available, in order to make the print more lucrative.
n
(printing) a plate, made by electroplating a mold, such as used in letterpress printing
n
A machine for printing embossed signs.
v
Obsolete form of imprint. [To leave a print, impression, image, etc.]
n
(archaic) The trade or work of an engraver.
n
(countable) A print produced from an engraving.
n
(photography) A moderately enlarged print made from a relatively small (e.g. 35 mm) negative
n
A small manufacturing plant able to make solid three-dimensional objects based on digital data.
n
(printing, historical) A large decorative printing block with a central space into which any letter can be inserted, used to mark the beginning of a chapter of a book in early printing.
n
A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.
n
One who produces ferrotypes.
v
To typeset by exposing type characters onto photographic film, which is then used to generate printing plates.
n
(computing) A document scanner with a flat bed.
n
One who uses the flexography system of printing.
n
(printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
n
(printing, historical, slang) A man employed to clear the printed copies from the printing-press.
n
(printing) The graded shift from one color into another.
n
(printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
n
A piece of photographic film containing an image.
n
(printing, dated) A white or pale patch on a printed page caused by poor inking.
n
(printing) A thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask.
n
(printing) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
v
(dated) To make a paper copy.
n
Alternative spelling of giclée [the use of inkjet printing to manufacture artistic prints]
n
the use of inkjet printing to manufacture artistic prints
v
(of a publication) To go to be printed, after editing is completed.
n
(art, printing) A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder.
n
Johannes Gutenberg, a German printer who developed European movable type.
n
(photography, historical) A photographic plate measuring 4¾ by 6½ inches in Britain (4¼ by 5½ in the US).
n
A press operated by hand, especially a printing press.
adj
Alternative form of handprinted [Printed by hand.]
n
(printing) One who assembles printing type by hand.
n
(printing, historical) An early printing press operated by means of a handle that applied pressure on the form.
n
The impression left by a head having been pressed against a soft surface, such as sand, snow, or a pillow.
n
(printing) The type used as a standard by a specific publisher.
n
Printing type cast from molten metal; hot metal typesetting.
n
any method of typesetting that involves injecting a molten metal alloy into a matrix to form a relief printing surface
n
One who produces pictures or photographs.
n
(computing, retronym) A printer in which each character is produced by part of the mechanism striking the paper (normally through an inked ribbon)
n
(printing, historical) The stone on which the pages or columns of type are imposed or made into forms.
n
(printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
n
(printing) set of copies of a publication printed at one time having the same content, layout, pagination, etc.
n
(printing) An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.
n
(obsolete) A print; impression.
n
The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
n
The object of imprinting; the person or thing on which something imprints.
n
A person who does imprinting with such a device.
n
internegative; a type of film stock, most commonly used regarding 35mm motion picture negative
n
(historical) A high-quality proof taken from engraved plates by means of India paper.
n
(computer hardware) A device for the printing of documents which that operates by propelling tiny droplets of liquid ink onto paper.
n
Ordinary ink printing, when contrasted with braille.
n
(printing) A device for inserting pre-printed color segments into a monochrome publication.
n
(printing) Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.
n
One who does miscellaneous printing, especially circulars, cards, billheads, etc.
n
A printing press operator who removes, jogs, and stacks the sheets or signatures of paper.
n
(US, historical, 19th century) A journeyman printer — referring to both a man's profession and his status within his trade or company.
n
A printed transfer of a design or trademark applied with heat and pressure.
n
(print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
n
(printing) The plate that prints the detail in an image.
n
(printing) An event where a foreground color causes a background color not to print.
n
(photography) A photographic format of 4 × 5 inches (102 × 127 mm) or larger.
n
A type of photocopier that uses the principles of a laser printer in its output stage.
n
(computer hardware) A computer printer that uses a laser beam to produce an image on a rotating drum before transferring it to the paper.
v
(transitive) To typeset using laser raster scan technology.
n
(printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
n
(printing) The printing process in which ink is applied to the top surface of a raised image area, which is then pressed against paper to transfer the image.
n
(countable) A picture produced by printing from such an engraving.
n
(art, printing) A type of woodcut in which a block of linoleum is used for the relief surface; the design cut into the block.
n
(printing, historical) A device for locking type into position for printing.
v
(printing) To blur or be blurred; especially to blur or double an impression from type.
n
(printing) A sheet of paper on which overlays are pasted for printing.
v
(transitive, printing) To multiply or reproduce impressions of by a single operation.
n
(printing, historical) In printmaking, the plate or block used, with ink, to hold the image that makes up the print.
n
(printing) A metal sheet used in offset printing for carrying ink onto the rubber printing form.
n
One who engraves in mezzotint.
n
(historical) A machine for making printed copies using typed stencil, eventually superseded by photocopying.
n
The creation of mimeographic copies.
n
A small, compact computer printer.
n
(printing, obsolete) A small kind of printing type; minion.
n
(sound engineering) A mixing console.
n
A form of printing on paper from a glass sheet to which oil paint has been applied; monotype.
n
(art, printing) A print made by creating the design using oil paint or printer's ink on metal or glass, then transferring the image directly to paper.
v
To print more than one copy of a document using a computer printer rather than printing one original and copying it with a separate machine.
n
Alternative spelling of mouseprint [The fine print found within ads for products telling consumers the details, usually positioned as a few small lines at the bottom of the ad.]
v
(historical, transitive) To print using a multigraph machine.
n
A small printing machine, rather like a letterpress, that uses a form of lithography
adj
(computing) of computer printout that is printed in multiple copies on paper having two or four continuous sheets rolled together with interleaving carbon paper; after printing it is separated on a decollator
n
A printing process that produces an impression of plants, animals, rocks, or other natural subjects.
adj
(journalism, typography) A newspaper's edition is ready to start printing.
v
(transitive) To reprint as an excerpt.
n
(printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
n
Printing by the offset process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket (“offset cylinder”) and from there to the printing surface.
n
(computing, dated) A print-out.
n
(printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
n
(printing) Typeset material that proves to be surplus to requirements.
v
(printing) To overlap different colours to avoid gaps.
v
(printing) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
n
printing process that can transfer a 2-D image onto a 3-D object.
adj
That writes or produces pamphlets.
n
(printing) A malfunction in a computer's printer or a photocopier or similar device occurring when sheets of paper become jammed inside.
n
(printing) The process of printing on both sides of the printed-on material during its single pass through the printing press.
n
A press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.
n
(printing, historical, colloquial) A tool used to pack the type into the form.
n
A machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass plate and printing duplicates.
n
(countable) A print so made.
n
A machine used in phototypesetting.
n
(historical) One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
n
The act of setting a painting, photograph etc. in a frame.
n
(dated) A size of photograph a little larger than a postage stamp.
n
(printing, photography) An image or copy.
n
A mark made on paper by the edge of an intaglio plate during printing.
n
A press with a flat carriage and a roller, used for printing from engraved steel or copper plates.
n
(photography, historical) A thin black frame used to hold a photographic plate in early cameras.
n
One who produces plates (printing surfaces).
n
The production of plates (printing surfaces).
n
(printing) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
n
A machine used in the manufacture of printed circuit boards
n
(countable) A print made by this method.
n
(printing) The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.
n
A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc.
n
(historical, printing) A ball used for inking the type.
n
A rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing (or "layered manufacturing") technology for making objects described by digital data. A liquid binding material is selectively deposited on a bed of powder.
adj
(obsolete) Of or relating to printing; typographical.
n
(countable) A printing machine.
n
(printing, historical) A proof taken on a press, especially to show impression, margins, colour, etc.
n
Alternative form of pressrun [The number of copies of a publication printed at one time.]
n
Someone who operates a printing press.
n
Synonym of printer's hat
n
The logo of a publishing press.
n
The number of copies of a publication printed at one time.
n
(countable) A newspaper.
n
That part of a printer that transfers a character or image to the paper.
n
(publishing) A system of printing very small runs of a document as required, especially by using computer technology.
v
(computing) to print (a computer document)
n
The total number of copies (of a book or newspaper) printed
n
(computing) A server that processes print jobs and sends them to one or more printers.
n
Alternative form of printshop [A shop where one can buy prints; a printseller's.]
v
(transitive) To print something on a printer; to make a printing of something.
n
Alternative spelling of print on demand [(publishing) A system of printing very small runs of a document as required, especially by using computer technology.]
n
Alternative spelling of printout [something printed on paper, usually by a printer (machine).]
n
A weak imprint of magnetic information transferred to adjacent layers of audiotape, resulting in an unwanted echo.
n
A digital image meant to be printed on paper.
adj
Restricted to the use of print.
n
The part of the press using printed media, such as newspapers, as opposed to audiovisual media
n
A traditional box-shaped hat made from folded paper, formerly worn by craft tradesmen such as carpenters, masons, and printers.
n
Alternative form of printing ink [A rapidly drying type of ink specifically for printing machines.]
n
A proof designed to monitor the progress of printing, similar to an artist's proof.
n
(UK, printing, dated) Twenty-one and a half quires of paper.
n
The world of printers and printing.
n
Alternative spelling of print head [That part of a printer that transfers a character or image to the paper.]
n
An object, usually in the shape of a block or a plate, used in printing to apply ink on the printed surface.
n
A commercial company dealing in printing.
n
(photography) A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative.
n
A rapidly drying type of ink specifically for printing machines.
n
An organisation or factory containing such a machine
n
In gravure printing, a cylinder which is itself the printing form.
n
A workshop used primarily for printing.
n
Alternative spelling of printing house [A commercial company dealing in printing.]
n
The field of art concerned, roughly, with the transfer of ink or paint from a plate or block or through a screen mesh to paper.
n
something printed on paper, usually by a printer (machine).
n
Alternative form of printeress [(dated) A female printer.]
n
(chiefly Canada, US) A shop offering commercial printing services; a printery or printing house.
n
In early printers, a disk bearing impressions of characters around its rim; these are struck against the page to produce text.
n
A printing company, or the printing section of a publisher.
n
(printing) A printing process which uses four specific colored inks: cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK), and halftone printing plates, to reproduce a range of colors.
n
(countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
n
(photography) A contact print.
n
The first printer to operate in any city, state &c
n
(in bibliographies) Abbreviation of printing. [(uncountable) The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.]
n
(printing, historical) A single impression from a handpress.
v
(transitive, idiomatic, printing) To prepare (a newspaper) for printing.
n
(photography, historical) A photographic plate measuring 3¼ by 4¼ inches.
n
(printing, historical) A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place.
n
(archaic, derogatory) A printing office that employs workers for low wages so as to drive rivals out of business.
n
(printing) The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
n
Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the protruding parts of the printing form.
n
(engraving) A print or proof distinguished by such a mark.
n
A 3D printer capable of printing most of its own components, so as to allow further printers to be created.
n
(printing) The proof prepared in offset printing, with all elements positioned on the page.
n
the equipment and materials used in this process
n
Calico printing, in which the pattern is produced by means of resist which preserves parts uncoloured.
n
A desk formed of fine ground glass, used for retouching photographic negatives.
n
(art, printing) A design impressed into the back of transparent or translucent items.
v
(printing, transitive) To print with reversed colours, i.e. black for white and vice versa.
n
An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
n
A high-speed printing machine used for high-volume photocopying by means of an internal stencil.
n
An additive manufacturing technique in which a filament of ink is extruded from a nozzle, forming an object layer by layer.
n
(chiefly historical) A copying machine using stencils.
n
A printing press that uses cylinders for carrying ink onto the printed surface, used in flexography, gravure and offset printing.
n
(printing) The whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.
n
(printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
v
(idiomatic) To make photocopies, or print.
n
In the printing press, a board or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet, thus producing an impression.
n
A copy of the edited workprint of a film made for such purposes as scoring or dubbing.
n
A printing technique in which ink is forced through a woven mesh with an ink-blocking stencil on it.
v
(transitive) To produce by screen printing.
n
(printing) The accumulation of sticky ink on a plate.
n
A sheet of paper on which a carbon copy is made.
n
A producer of printed documents or products which are physically protected against forgery, counterfeiting and alteration by security features
n
One who does serigraphy, or silk-screen printing.
n
screen print, screenprint (artwork)
v
(printing, historical) To deface or soil the next sheet; said of the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time to dry.
adj
(printing, of a press) Into which individual sheets of paper or paperboard are loaded.
n
The printing of sheets of paper using a printing press.
n
(printing, obsolete) A light impression on a hand-press.
n
(film) A release print made directly from the original camera negative rather than an internegative.
n
A method of reproducing coloured artwork using a cut stencil attached to a stretched, fine-meshed silk screen
v
To use a silkscreen to apply an image.
n
Synonym of scratch print
n
Synonym of scratch print
n
A piece of software that converts a model into a series of thin layers for 3D printing.
n
(printing) A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.
n
(typography, now chiefly historical) A temporary print made from a thin coating of carbon deposited on the punch surface by a candle flame, used in evaluating the progress of the design of the punch.
n
(dated, slang) A printer who does short-term work in various offices.
v
(printing) To subject to spanishing, a printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a plastic material
n
(historical, printing) An early document copier using alcohol-based solvents.
n
(rare) Alternative spelling of spore print [(mycology) The distinctive and identifying pattern and color produced after the cap of a mushroom is pressed against a white page.]
n
(printing) A tool used to force the ink through the stencil in silk-screen printing.
n
A moulding, cast or other impression of an object, chiefly a design, inscription etc., especially by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
n
(now historical) A factory for block-printing, or ‘stamping’, calico.
n
(printing) An engraving plate:
adj
(dated) Printed on a duplicator from a typed stencil.
v
(transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
n
One who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.
n
(printing) stereotype printer
n
The act or technique of printing from stereotype plates.
n
(uncountable, printing) The process of making stereotype plates and printing from them.
n
(printing, historical) A technique of printing with points, consisting of their arrangement in pictures.
n
(film) The process of duplicating certain frames of a film so that it can be played back at a higher frames-per-second rate without the action seeming too fast.
n
The printing of text or graphics elements on top of a background that is a different tint of the same color.
n
That which serves as a tag, such as an identification microchip or a chemical or physical marker.
n
(printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
n
ink designs or lettering printed using tampography, also known as pad printing
n
An inking pad used in lithographic printing.
n
(computer hardware) A printer that operates by applying heat to selected areas of specially treated paper.
n
Printing by applying heat to a treated surface, as by a thermal printer.
n
(printing, historical) A surface prepared for printing a background.
n
Multicolour printing using a woodblock that picks up coloured dyes from a chambered sieve.
n
(computing, informal) A very small footprint (amount of physical surface taken up by equipment).
n
Powder used in laser printers and photocopiers to form the text and images on the printed paper.
n
The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.
n
(printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
n
(printing) A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
n
(printing, historical) The part of a printing press which holds the type, and against which the platen is pressed.
n
(printing, historical) A container for type.
n
(printing, historical) A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
n
(printing) A person employed to make up galley proofs in page mode.
n
(printing, historical) The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.
v
(printing, historical) To prepare printed material using a machine of this kind.
n
An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.
n
(printing) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position.
n
In printmaking, an intaglio method whereby multiple colors of ink may be printed simultaneously from the same plate, utilizing inks of varying viscosity, plates with multiple levels of etching and hard and soft brayers for applying the inks to the plate.
n
The process of creating a voiceprint.
n
(lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
n
(photography, historical) A photographic plate measuring 6½ by 8½ inches.
n
(printing) A wooden block used as a printing form.
n
A technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.
n
A xerography machine; a photocopier.
v
To print by means of xerography.
n
(dated in North America, Philippines, colloquial, informal) A photocopy.
n
(dated in North America, Philippines) A photocopier
n
A xerox machine, or generically a term for a photocopier:
n
Synonym of photocopylore (“a kind of folklore comprising humorous material and urban legends that are reproduced on xerox machines (photocopiers)”).
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