printing ink


noun
  1. a type of ink that flows smoothly, dries quickly, and is of a consistency able to hold enough color to make printed matter legible: used to transfer the image on a press plate to the printing surface.

Origin of printing ink

1
First recorded in 1670–80

Words Nearby printing ink

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How to use printing ink in a sentence

  • Substitute for lithographic stone; a firm, black, copying, printing ink; method for photographing in colors.

  • Having thus considered the products which are the principal raw materials of printing ink, we now come to the ink itself.

  • An impression is made with black printing ink on paper by passing it through the hand press.

  • Eugene went out, the smell of fresh printing ink in his nose, and the equally aggressive smell of damp newspapers.

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  • It is also used in the manufacture of printing-ink; and we have now Cennino's authority for using it with blue pigments.