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

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

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 The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Hitchcock, Frederick H.

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 Hoofbeats on the Turnpike by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)