What is "print"

Print \Print\, v. i.

1. To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.

2. To publish a book or an article.

   From the moment he prints, he must except to hear no more truth.
   --Pope.

Print \Print\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Printed; p. pr. & vb. n. Printing.] [Abbrev. fr. imprint. See Imprint, and Press to squeeze.]

1. To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.

   A look will print a thought that never may remove.
   --Surrey.

   Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, Which in that field young Edward's sword did print.
   --Sir John Beaumont.

   Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay.
   --Roscommon.

2. To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.

   Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.
   --Dryden.

3. Specifically: To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.

4. To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.

5. (Photog.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface.

   Printed goods, textile fabrics printed in patterns, especially cotton cloths, or calicoes.

Print \Print\, n. [See Print, v., Imprint, n.]

1. A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow.

   Where print of human feet was never seen.
   --Dryden.

2. A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.

3. That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.

4. Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.

5. That which is produced by printing. Specifically:

   1. An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate. ``The prints which we see of antiquities.''
      --Dryden.

   2. A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical.
      --Addison.

   3. A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth.

   4. A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.

6. (Founding) A core print. See under Core. Blue print, a copy in white lines on a blue ground, of a drawing, plan, tracing, etc., or a positive picture in blue and white, from a negative, produced by photographic printing on peculiarly prepared paper. In print.

   1. In a printed form; issued from the press; published.
      --Shak.

   2. To the letter; with accurateness. ``All this I speak in print.''
      --Shak.

      Out of print. See under Out.

      Print works, a factory where cloth, as calico, is printed.

c.1300, "impression, mark" (as by a stamp or seal), from Old French preinte "impression," noun use of fem. past participle of preindre "to press, crush," altered from prembre, from Latin premere "to press" (see press (v.1)). The Old French word also was borrowed into Middle Dutch (prente, Dutch prent) and other Germanic languages.\n

\nMeaning "printed lettering" is from 1620s; print-hand "print-like handwriting" is from 1658. Sense of "picture or design from a block or plate" is first attested 1660s. Meaning "piece of printed cloth" is from 1756. In Middle English, stigmata were called precious prentes of crist; to perceiven the print of sight was "to feel (someone's) gaze." Out of print "no longer to be had from the publisher" is from 1670s (to be in print is recorded from late 15c.). Print journalism attested from 1962.

mid-14c., prenten "to make an impression" (as with a seal, stamp, etc.), from print (n.). Meaning "to set a mark on any surface" (including by writing) is attested from late 14c. Meaning "to run off on a press" is recorded from 1510s (Caxton, 1474, used enprynte in this sense). In reference to textiles, 1580s. The photography sense is recorded from 1851 (the noun in this sense is from 1853). Meaning "to write in imitation of typography" is from 180

1. \n\nHe always prints, I know, 'cos he learnt writin' from the large bills in the bookin' offices.

   [Charles Dickens, "Pickwick Papers," 1837]

   \nThe meaning "to record (someone's) fingerprints" is from 195

2. Related: Printed; printing.\n

1. Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications. n. 1 (context uncountable English) book and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium. 2 (context uncountable English) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive. 3 (context uncountable English) The letters forming the text of a document. 4 A visible impression on a surface. 5 A fingerprint. 6 A footprint. 7 (context visual art English) A picture that was created in multiple copy by printing. 8 (context photography English) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative. 9 (context motion pictures English) A copy of a film that can be projected. 10 cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it. v

2. 1 (context transitive English) To produce one or more copy of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with ''out'' or ''off'': print out, print off. 2 To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image. 3 (context ambitransitive English) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive. 4 (context ambitransitive English) To publish in a book, newspaper, et

3. 5 (context transitive English) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns. 6 (context transitive English) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something. 7 (context transitive English) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.

1. v. put into print; "The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce"; "These news should not be printed" [syn: publish]

2. write as if with print; not cursive

3. make into a print; "print the negative"

4. reproduce by printing [syn: impress]

1. n. the result of the printing process; "I want to see it in black and white" [syn: black and white]

2. a picture or design printed from an engraving

3. a visible indication made on a surface; "some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks"; "paw prints were everywhere" [syn: mark]

4. a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)

5. a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers)

6. a printed picture produced from a photographic negative [syn: photographic print]

In computing, print command was introduced in MS-DOS/ IBM PC DOS 2.0 in order to provide single-user print spooling capability. It is roughly similar to that provided by the UNIX System V lp and BSD lpr print spooler systems. The command is also available in the DEC RT-11 and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Print may refer to:

• Printing, mostly using a printing press, but a process which may also refer to other methods of printmaking
  • Printing press, printing with moveable metal type, see also letterpress printing
  • Publishing, the distribution of printed works or other information
  • Print run, one batch of printing, that is, the number of copies printed by one set-up of a printing press
  • Textile printing
  • 'In print', currently being published; compare out of print
• "Writing in print", printing, printscript or print-writing: a handwriting method using block letters, instead of cursive letters
  • Engraved letters, such as initials, on other materials, such as printed glass
• Printmaking, various processes for producing multiple copies of works of art by printing
  • Old master print, a product of printmaking, such as an engraving, etching or woodcut, in the European tradition, instead of others (e.g., Asian), especially if made before 1830
  • Lithography, taking a mirror-image print from a stone or metal "plate"
  • Photographic printing, the process of making a photo
• The print medium, forms of paper (or sometimes other materials) upon which letters or graphics have been died or engraved, such as books, pamphlets, scrolls and files
• Print output, computer output on a screen or on paper
  • Printer (computing), a device to put ink on paper
  • Print screen, the name of a keyboard key for copying the contents of the screen to somewhere
  • PRINT (command), a shell command of DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows
  • PRINT, a BASIC programming language command that generates text in text modes, derived from the text printing process on teleprinter terminals before refreshing displays
• Release print, a distribution print in film making
• Print (magazine), a bimonthly magazine about visual culture and design
• Prints (album), a 2002 album by Fred Frith
• Printing, allowing a concealed weapon (firearm particularly) to be visible through clothing

Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts was a limited edition quarterly periodical begun in 1940 and continued under different names up to the present day as Print, a bimonthly American magazine about visual culture and design.

In its current format, Print documents and critiques commercial, social, and environmental design from every angle: the good (how New York’s public-school libraries are being reinvented through bold graphics), the bad (how Tylenol flubbed its disastrous ad campaign for suspicious hipsters), and the ugly (how Russia relies on Soviet symbolism to promote sausage and real estate).

Print is a general-interest magazine, written by cultural reporters and critics who look at design in its social, political, and historical contexts. From newspapers and book covers to Web-based motion graphics, from corporate branding to indie-rock posters, from exhibitions to cars to monuments, Print shows its audience of designers, art directors, illustrators, photographers, educators, students, and enthusiasts of popular culture why our world looks the way it looks, and why the way it looks matters. Print underwent a complete redesign in 2005.