presswork

American  

[pres-wurk] / ˈprɛsˌwɜrk /

noun

1. the working working or management of a printing press.

2. the work done by it.

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presswork British  

/ ˈprɛsˌwɜːk /

noun

1. the operation of a printing press

2. the matter printed by a printing press

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Etymology

Origin of presswork

First recorded in 1765–75; press ¹ + work

Example Sentences

There are, for example, chapters about paper, typography and layout, typesetting and presswork, bindings, endpapers and dust jackets.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2020

Bradford had been bred to it, and was very illiterate; and Keimer, though something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of presswork.

From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Franklin, Benjamin

He's going to try to help pay for all this wasteful presswork you're doing.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore

The paper for quarter of a million copies will cost twelve hundred and fifty dollars, the presswork about five hundred dollars.

From The Bread Line A Story of a Paper by Paine, Albert Bigelow

Less than nine hundred copies were printed in July, 1855, in the printshop of Andrew H. Rome, 98 Cranberry Street, Brooklyn, the author assisting in the type composition and presswork.

From The Bibliography of Walt Whitman by Shay, Frank