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sheet-fed

American

[sheet-fed] / ˈʃitˌfɛd /

adjective

(of a printing press) fed by and designed to print individual flat sheets of paper.

sheet-fed British

adjective

printing involving or printing on separate sheets of paper Compare reel-fed

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Etymology

Origin of sheet-fed

First recorded in 1885–90

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Working from bound volumes or anything that could not be sheet-fed also constituted a factor eliminating companies that would have performed OCR.

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