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What is "print run"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
print run
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an initial print run of 1 million copies
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bloomsbury says that most if its first print run of 15,000 copies has been subscribed.
▪ Contemporary Women Artists, a new colour microfiche is now on its second print run.
▪ It can cost between 50p and £1.50 to have passports produced, depending on the print run and the complexity.
▪ Its print run is not a few thousand - but 54,000!
▪ The day his drawing came out Le Patriote had its highest annual print run.
▪ The first print run of 6,000 sold out and a second of 4,000 is moving quickly.
▪ They also had calculated the cost of a print run of 10, 000.
WordNet
print run

n. the period that presses run to produce an issue of a newspaper [syn: press run]

Usage examples of "print run".

To me, books were valuable not for the scarcity of the print run but because of the stories held inside.

But I wouldn't trade places with Eric Zencey, whose novel Panama was supposed to be the next Alienist, and only sold one quarter of the promised 100,000 print run.

So with manual printing, the first and last copy of the same print run could vary greatly.

When they were doing the cover design forDragon , it occurred to me that since they were printing four colors on the front of the jacket, it would cost them hardly any more to print the back photo in color because it would be on the same print run.

When they were doing the cover design for Dragon, it occurred to me that since they were printing four colors on the front of the jacket, it would cost them hardly any more to print the back photo in color because it would be on the same print run.

But once presented with the manuscript, and a slightly more arresting title, Murray reconsidered and increased the initial print run to 1,250.

The SFA, lost in dreams of glory, would not notice the clause that specified a maximum print run of ten thousand but mentioned no minimum or the clause that said the amount to be paid by the author was independent of the print run (which was agreed upon only verbally), or the clause that said—.

The SFA, lost in dreams of glory, would not notice the clause that specified a maximum print run of ten thousand but mentioned no minimum or the clause that said the amount to be paid by the author was independent of the print run (which was agreed upon only verbally), or the clause that said-most important of all-that the publisher had the right to pulp all unsold copies after one year unless the author wished to buy them at half the list price.

When they were doing the cover design forDragon, it occurred to me that since they were printing four colors onthe front of the jacket, it would cost them hardly any more to print theback photo in color because it would be on the same print run.

The average publisher needed to sell about forty percent of his print run to break even.

When the print run was almost done, a scout brought back from the army camp west of Sandomierz a list of the Polish nobility that had survived the battle there.