printing press

American  

noun

• printing presses
  plural

1. a machine, as a cylinder press or rotary press, for printing on paper or the like from type, plates, etc.

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printing press British  

noun

1. any of various machines used for printing

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• printing presses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of printing press

First recorded in 1580–90

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

printing press

Nothing is salvageable at this Kyiv printing press.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Viktoria Haidai surveys the mangled remains of the printing press, which should have been busy churning out textbooks ready for the new school year.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

And the media landscape now centers on the internet and social media rather than a printing press.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The most captivating sidebar introduces Nellie Williams, the young upstate New Yorker whose disabled father won a printing press in a poker game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

He lives just outside Atlanta, where he works for a magazine, running the printing press.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore