job printer

American  

noun

1. a printer who does letterheads, invoices, announcements, and other miscellaneous work, as distinguished from one who works solely on books, periodicals, etc.

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Other Word Forms

• job printing
  noun

Etymology

Origin of job printer

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Example Sentences

But no job printer was able to handle the order.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a foreword to Our President: Herbert Hoover, the boy explains that as a job printer "I done a real good business" but there appeared to be "more money in the publishing business."

From Time Magazine Archive

We have just installed new machines in our printing plant in New York and intend selling the old ones to some small job printer who can use second-hand machines.

From The Blue Birds' Winter Nest by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

Apparently it appeals to the typographer, who devotes to it his worthy art, as well as to the job printer, who may pull a crudely printed proof.

From 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Twain, Mark

Fitzgerald, the job printer, examined the machinery carefully and again McGaffey screwed nuts and regulated the press.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)