rotary press

American  

noun

Printing.

1. a printing press in which the type or plates to be printed are fastened upon a rotating cylinder and are impressed on a continuous roll of moving paper.

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rotary press British  

noun

1. a machine for printing from a revolving cylinder, or a plate attached to one, usually onto a continuous strip of paper

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Etymology

Origin of rotary press

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

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rotary press

One of them invented the rotary press, which made the early editions of this newspaper possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

The rotary press accelerated book publishing, and with inexpensive wood pulp paper, ultimately lowered the price of a hardcover volume.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

In 1844, American inventor Richard March Hoe first deployed his rotary press, which could print 8,000 pages in a single hour.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2017

The giant rotary press was quite capable of churning out masses of printed material.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 21, 2013

But may it not be true that the thousandfold increase in such transmission by the rotary press has also tended to muddy the current thought of the time?

From The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution by Beck, James M. (James Montgomery)