WordNet
flatbed press
n. a printing press where the type is carried on a flat bed under a cylinder that holds paper and rolls over the type [syn: cylinder press]
Usage examples of "flatbed press".
Tyss had a couch, hardly more luxurious, downstairs by the flatbed press.
For a printing press, I decided to bypass the evolutionary step of the flatbed press and go directly to a simple rotary press, and to cast the type in a solid line, rather than bothering with movable type.
When he went inside he found they had a long counter cutting off the front of the twenty by forty-foot forespace from a typewriter-topped editorial desk, some filing cabinets, and a hand-cranked flatbed press in the back.