printing

Types:: gravure
the act of intaglio printing; issue, publication
the act of issuing printed materials; photogravure, rotogravure
using photography to produce a plate for printing

Type of:: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise
the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects

Types:: show 12 types...; hide 12 types...; composition, typography
art and technique of printing with movable type; letterpress, relief printing
printing from a plate with raised characters; gravure, intaglio, intaglio printing
a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print; process printing
a method of printing colored reproductions from halftone plates; planographic printing, planography
the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent); offset, offset printing
a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper; carbon process
a process of printing on paper coated with bichromated gelatin containing pigment; photogravure
printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods; collotype, collotype printing, photogelatin process
a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors; lithography
a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface; photo-offset, photo-offset printing
a method of offset printing using photomechanical plates; letterset printing
image is transferred from a relief type plate to a roller

Type of:: writing
letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language

“they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies”

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the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published; proof, test copy, trial impression
(printing) an impression made to check for errors; mackle
a printed impression that is blurred or doubled; limited edition
an edition that is restricted to a specific number of copies; variorum, variorum edition
an edition containing various versions of a text or notes by various scholars or editors; galley proof
a proof taken before the type is broken up to print pages; foundry proof
a proof taken from a form before duplicate plates are made

Type of:: writing
letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language

DEFINITIONS OF: printing