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print·ing
(prĭn′tĭng)n.
1. The art, process, or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or by similar means.
2.
a. The act of one that prints.
b. Matter that is printed.
3. All the copies of a publication, such as a book, that are printed at one time.
4. Written characters not connected to one another and resembling those appearing in print.
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printing
(ˈprɪntɪŋ)n
1. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding)
a. the process, business, or art of producing printed matter
b. (as modifier): printing ink.
2. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printed text
3. (Journalism & Publishing) Also called: impression all the copies of a book or other publication printed at one time
4. a form of writing in which letters resemble printed letters
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print•ing
(ˈprɪn tɪŋ)n.
1. the skill, process, or business of producing books, newspapers, etc., by impression from movable types, plates, etc.
2. the act of a person or thing that prints.
3. printed material.
4. all the copies of a book or other publication printed at one time.
5. writing in which the letters resemble printed ones.
[1350–1400]
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Printing
an offset process that uses an aluminum plate instead of a lithographic stone. Also called aluminography. — algraphic, adj.
the process in lithography of transferring writings and drawings to a stone surface. — autographic, adj. — autographically, adv.
a printing process by which colored lithographs are produced by a series of stone or zinc plates, each of which carries different portions of the picture to be printed, inked in different colors.
printing in colors from a series of wooden blocks.
the process of preparing a facsimile printing surface, involving the depositing of a thin copper or nickel shell by electrolytic action in a mold of the original and backing it with a lead alloy. — electrotyper, electrotypist, n. — electrotypic, adj.
a process for making letterpress plates by engraving a waxed copper plate, dusting with zinc, and preparing an electrotype. — glyphographer, n. — glyphographic, adj.
a device for embossing letters on thin sheets of metal.
permission, particularly that given by the Roman Catholic Church, to publish or print; hence, any sanction or approval.
the use of italics in printing text to indicate foreign words, abbreviations, emphasis, titles, etc.
1. the art or process of producing an image on a flat, specially prepared stone, treating the items to be printed with a greasy substance to which ink adheres, and of taking impressions from this on paper.
2. a similar process in which the stone is replaced by a zinc or aluminum plate, often provided with a photosensitive surface for reproducing an image photographically. — lithographer, n. — lithographic, adj.
2. a similar process in which the stone is replaced by a zinc or aluminum plate, often provided with a photosensitive surface for reproducing an image photographically. — lithographer, n. — lithographic, adj.
a printing process in which types are impressed in a soft matrix, the resulting hollow spaces being filled with a heated mixture that later solidifies and can be used for printing. — lithotypic, adj.
an offset printing process, similar to lithography, using metal plates instead of stone.
a printing method in which the image on a plate is offset onto a rubber blanket from which it is transferred onto the surface to be printed.
the production of chromolithographs printed in oil colors on canvas or cloth as well as on paper. — oleographic, adj.
type used in the testing of eyesight.
a process by which a line drawing or writing on paper is transferred to a zinc plate, which is then used for printing. — papyrograph, n. — papyrographic, adj.
the process of producing a raised impression on wood from a photograph and using the block thus produced for printing.
Obsolete, lithography.
a technique for imitating an engraved appearance, as on business cards, by dusting areas already printed with a powder attracted only to the inks and using heat to fuse the ink and powder. — thermographer, n. — thermographic, adj.
1. the design, theory, and art of creating characters for printing.
2. the design and selection of printed matter.
3. the craft or business of composing type. — typographic, typographical, adj.
2. the design and selection of printed matter.
3. the craft or business of composing type. — typographic, typographical, adj.
printers, especially master printers, usually found in the names of associations of printers.
the art of engraving on wood or of printing from such engravings. — xylographer, n. — xylographic, xylographical, adj.
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printing
The production of multiple copies of text or pictures, normally on paper. Printing has advanced rapidly and today complete pages can be produced by computers, transferred to paper by laser, and then photographed onto a printing plate.
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| Noun | 1. |  printing - text handwritten in the style of printed matterwriting - letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language; "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible" |
| 2. | printing - the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution business enterprise, commercial enterprise, business - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" gravure - the act of intaglio printing publication, issue - the act of issuing printed materials compositor's case, typesetter's case, case - (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers; "for English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters" printing process, printing - reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication justify - adjust the spaces between words; "justify the margins" | |
| 3. |  printing - reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publicationprinting - the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution hair space - (printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters quad, space - (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences writing - letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language; "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible" printing, impression - all the copies of a work printed at one time; "they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies" typography, composition - art and technique of printing with movable type letterpress, relief printing - printing from a plate with raised characters gravure, intaglio, intaglio printing - a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print process printing - a method of printing colored reproductions from halftone plates planographic printing, planography - the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent) offset printing, offset - a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper carbon process - a process of printing on paper coated with bichromated gelatin containing pigment ascender - (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters descender - (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters word processing - rapid and efficient processing (storage and printing) of linguistic data for composition and editing white out - widen the interlinear spacing by inserting leads underlay - raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type; "underlay the plate" kern - remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters) kern - furnish with a kern superscript, superior - written or printed above and to one side of another character adscript - written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it | |
| 4. | printing - all the copies of a work printed at one time; "they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies" publication - a copy of a printed work offered for distribution edition - the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published mackle - a printed impression that is blurred or doubled printing process, printing - reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication |
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printing
noun1. The act or process of publishing printed matter:
2. The entire number of copies of a publication printed from a single typesetting:
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Translations
طِباعَه
tisk
trykning
nyomtatás
prentun; prentiîn
tisk
printing
[ˈprɪntɪŋ]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
printing
[ˈprɪntɪŋ] n (= technique) → imprimerie f
modif [firm, company] → d'imprimerie; [costs] → d'impression printing error, printing pressprinting error n → erreur f d'impressionprinting press n → presse f typographique
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
printing
printing
:printing frame
n → Kopierrahmen m
printing ink
n → Druckerschwärze f
printing office
n → (Buch)druckerei f
printing order
n (Comput) → Druckreihenfolge f
printing paper
n → Druckerpapier nt, → Kopierpapier nt
printing press
n → Druckerpresse f
printing works
n sing or pl → Druckerei f
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1. a mark made by pressure. a footprint; a fingerprint.
2. printed lettering. I can't read the print in this book.
3. a photograph made from a negative. I entered three prints for the photographic competition.
4. a printed reproduction of a painting or drawing.
verb1. to mark (letters etc) on paper (by using a printing press etc). The invitations will be printed on white paper.
2. to publish (a book, article etc) in printed form. His new novel will be printed next month.
3. to produce (a photographic image) on paper. He develops and prints his own photographs.
4. to mark designs on (cloth etc). When the cloth has been woven, it is dyed and printed.
5. to write, using capital letters. Please print your name and address.
ˈprinter noun1. a machine that prints texts from a computer.
2. a person who prints books, newspapers etc.
ˈprinting noun the work of a printer.
ˈprinting-press noun (also press) a machine for printing.
ˈprint-out noun the printed information given by a computer.
in / out of print (of books) available/unavailable to be bought from the publisher. That book has been out of print for years.
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