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

Derived Forms

• job printing
  noun

Etymology

Origin of job printer

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Example Sentences

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

But no job printer was able to handle the order.

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

The letters were typewritten by the office stenographer on newly printed letterheads that Fitzgerald, the job printer, had prepared.

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

They have, in fact, all the commonness of the job printer.

From Walking-Stick Papers by Holliday, Robert Cortes