The Collaborative International Dictionary
Printing \Print"ing\, n. The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.
Block printing. See under Block.
Printing frame (Photog.), a shallow box, usually having a glass front, in which prints are made by exposure to light.
Printing house, a printing office.
Printing ink, ink used in printing books, newspapers, etc.
It is composed of lampblack or ivory black mingled with
linseed or nut oil, made thick by boiling and burning.
Other ingredients are employed for the finer qualities.
--Ure.
Printing office, a place where books, pamphlets, or newspapers, etc., are printed.
Printing paper, paper used in the printing of books, pamphlets, newspapers, and the like, as distinguished from writing paper, wrapping paper, etc.
Printing press, a press for printing, books, newspaper, handbills, etc.
Printing wheel, a wheel with letters or figures on its periphery, used in machines for paging or numbering, or in ticket-printing machines, typewriters, etc.; a type wheel.
Usage examples of "printing paper".
All we did was to put the envelope into a printing-frame with a bit of photographic printing paper behind it and expose it to light for a while.
If the human crew of sneakship Tabernacle had kept printing paper books till this very day, they could have spilled only a small fragment of the trove before us, a hoard that began before many stars in the sky.
The Greenback Party wanted to go on printing paper money, never resume specie payment-but eventually we toughed it out and paid hard money for the Greenbacks that had financed the Union side of the war.
The Greenback Party wanted to go on printing paper money, never resume specie payment - but eventually we toughed it out and paid hard money for the Greenbacks that had financed the Union side of the war.
It seems that A Pirie paper was used primarily for the printing of bankers' and other business ledgers, business stationery, and nonwatermarked printing and lithographic printing paper.
If, with an enlarging lantern, the image of this faked picture is thrown on the printing paper like a lantern slide, and if the right-hand side is moved a little further away than the left, the top further away than the bottom, you can in that way print a fraudulent high-speed picture ahead.
The Greenback Party wanted to go on printing paper money, never resume specie payment—.
Peter turned out the amber light, then turned on the safelight, a small, glowing, red bulb which would not expose the printing paper.
Isaac Asimov writes of the smell of printing paper, but I never noticed it, though great bales of it were stacked about.
Surviving family photographs show that Arthur Wright, like most amateur photographers of his day, used daylight printing paper.
David worked out a deal with the owners: free food in exchange for marketing assistance that consisted mainly of printing paper fliers and discount coupons cleverly composed by David, a natural salesman.
All nations, particularly your United States, simply began printing paper money, which had no value since it represented nothing.