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View synonyms for cylinder press

cylinder press

noun

  1. a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.


cylinder press

noun

  1. printing another name for flat-bed press
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cylinder press1

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
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Example Sentences

The Treadwell was not a cylinder press, but its invention would have been of no consequence without the composition roller.

Was it other than the modern newspaper thrown off by the pulsing of the great cylinder press?

A double cylinder press will give from 4000 to 6000 impressions an hour.

Figure 1, plate I, is the picture of such a cylinder press, made for stone-printing.

The power of a lever press is insufficient for larger stones, and a cylinder press is required.

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