job printer
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of job printer
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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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."
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But no job printer was able to handle the order.
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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 L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
They have, in fact, all the commonness of the job printer.
From Walking-Stick Papers by Robert Cortes Holliday
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 Mark Twain
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