printing press
a machine, as a cylinder press or rotary press, for printing on paper or the like from type, plates, etc.
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We are living in the greatest information revolution in human history, even greater than the printing press.
Take, for example, a newspaper business with a printing press that cost $10 million and will last for, say, 20 years.
The Billionaire Playbook: How Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes | by Robert Faturechi, Justin Elliott and Ellis Simani | July 8, 2021 | ProPublicaSubhash makes a living selling fish and owns a printing press.
These twins are 5 years old. They lost both parents to covid-19. | Joanna Slater | June 17, 2021 | Washington PostIf you’re not fed, if you don’t have a museum, if you don’t have paints, if you don’t have ink and printing presses, you don’t have beauty.
Literature Should Be Taught Like Science - Issue 97: Wonder | Kevin Berger | February 24, 2021 | NautilusThis is how media executives must have felt as they poured money into digital assets over the past two decades even though their printing presses were not yet fully written off.
Nestlé CEO: Climate change laggards put the planet—and their businesses—at risk | matthewheimer | December 3, 2020 | Fortune
I bought a printing press and started printing little booklets.
Back then, new technology also was to blame—though then it was the invention of the color printing press, not the Internet.
Things like evolutionary theory, the internet, and the printing press did not appear miraculously in a dream.
After all, the novel is itself, to some extent, a creation of a new technology: the printing press.
The books are photocopied, or sometimes printed, at an old printing press in Salt Market Village.
I have a printing-press, a collection of birds' eggs, and some white bantams and some rabbits.
Harper's Young People, November 30, 1880 | VariousIn 1709 a printing press was set up in Newport and a public printer appointed.
A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington GreeneBut, since the power of the printing press has risen, the influence of the priesthood has diminished.
Ancient Faiths And Modern | Thomas InmanJames Franklin sets up a printing press in Newport after having failed to establish a newspaper in Boston.
A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington GreeneYet this was a new name too, for the people of the Middle Ages would not have known what a printing-press was.
Stories That Words Tell Us | Elizabeth O'Neill
British Dictionary definitions for printing press
any of various machines used for printing
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