printing

[prin-ting]

noun

1. the art, 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. words, symbols, etc., in printed form.

4. printed material.

5. the total number of copies of a book or other publication printed at one time.

   The book had a first printing of 10,000.

6. writing in which the letters resemble printed ones.

printing

/ ˈprɪntɪŋ /

noun

1. 1. the process, business, or art of producing printed matter

   2. ( as modifier )

      printing ink

2. printed text

3. 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

Other Word Forms

• nonprinting adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of printing¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; print, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

It used telegraph lines to report transactions in almost real time, printing them out on rolls of tape in abbreviations that insiders could interpret.

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Warsh would turn off that part of what he refers to as the monetary “printing press.”

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The heaven part was the place she knew all her life as a third-generation resident of Beeri, with its printing press and basketball team.

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This particular copy is one of just 500 from the first hardcover printing in the U.K.

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Even if the corrective notices are mailed to voter households rather than individual voters, the postage alone is likely to be millions of dollars, in addition to the cost of printing the postcards.

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Related Words

• copy 
• distribution 
• issuance