printing
The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.
Example
“In those days, printing was big business in this city. Giant web-fed presses churned out countless tons of printed matter annually.”
Other meanings
Handwritten characters that are not joined up.
“The instructions said, "Please sign your name and then print your name below your signature," so he wrote out his name underneath in the neatest printing that his hand could muster.”
Related words
- bioprinting
- contact printing
- printing telegraph
- immunoprinting
- microprinting
- nanoprinting
- nonprinting
- teleprinting
- thermoprinting
- toeprinting
- whiteprinting
- letter-quality printing
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “printing” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.