job printer
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of job printer
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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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
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
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 L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
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 Lillian Elizabeth Roy
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