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

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

David resumed his place in the office, and when we put in the perfecting press he added another string to his bow.

From In Our Town by Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo

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)

Then came the perfecting press, a far smaller machine, but capable of five times as much work, thanks to the substitution of rolls of paper for separate sheets fed in one by one.

From Inventors by Hubert, Philip Gengembre

"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