flat-bed press

British  

noun

1. Also called: cylinder press.  a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder

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Example Sentences

Through the plate glass they glimpsed a large, cluttered room where desks, bins of type, table forms and a massive flat-bed press all seemed jammed together.

From Project Gutenberg

The little engine rested briefly while a workman slipped the power take-off belt from the generator to an ancient flat-bed press.

From Time Magazine Archive

An ordinary twelvemo book, without illustrations in the text, is usually printed in forms of thirty-two pages, on what is known as a single-cylinder flat-bed press, which prints only one side of the paper at an impression.

From Project Gutenberg

At present the cumbrous stone and the slow-moving flat-bed press are being supplanted by the light and pliable aluminum plates and the fast-moving rotary presses.

From Project Gutenberg

The aluminum plate has all the requisites for the highest grades of lithographic or surface printing, and the rotary press is beyond doubt a vast improvement over the flat-bed press, not only as to speed, but also as to the quality and uniformity of its product.

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