perfecting press

American  

noun

Printing.

1. a rotary press for printing both sides of a sheet or web in one operation.

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Etymology

Origin of perfecting press

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

The sum of all improvements in this department of mechanical invention is seen in the great cylinder-presses now in general use, especially the one known as the web perfecting press.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

In 1862 Mr. Walter began in The Times office, with tools and machinery of his own, experiments for constructing a perfecting press which should print the paper from rolls of paper instead of from sheets.

From Men of Invention and Industry by Smiles, Samuel