Printing Press Definition

noun
A machine that transfers lettering or images by contact with various forms of inked surface onto paper or similar material fed into it in various ways.
American Heritage
A machine for printing from inked type, plates, or rolls.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
printing press
Plural:
printing-presses

Printing Press Sentence Examples

  • At this college is the missionary printing-press of the Roman Church, and its library contains an unrivalled collection of literary treasures bearing on the work.

  • Here in 1567 a Hebrew printing-press was set up.

  • Leo called Theodore Lascaris to Rome to give instruction in Greek, and established a Greek printing-press from which the first Greek book printed at Rome appeared in 1515.

  • At a printing-press established in Walther's house by Regiomontanus, Purbach's Theoricae planetarum novae was published in 1472 or 1473; a series of popular calendars issued from it, and in 1474 a volume of Ephemerides calculated by Regiomontanus for thirty-two years (1474-1506), in which the method of "lunar distances," for determining the longitude at sea, was recommended and explained.

  • The party Center and printing press were in Bombay.

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