perfecting press
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of perfecting press
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
Example Sentences
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Otherwise, a perfecting press is very much like two cylinder presses joined together.
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.
Another press, which is still employed to a small extent for book-work, is the flat-bed perfecting press.
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.
"Straightline newspaper perfecting" press, prints 100,000 eight-page papers per hour—Goss Company, United States.
From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth
There is something like a sob to the perfecting press, as though saddened by the very thought of the abuses it must reform.
From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll
Alauzet & Co. have also a web perfecting press, à double touche, for illustrated papers and book-printing.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various
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