letterpress – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
letterpress
adj.
printed by letterpress, printed from a raised inked surface
n.
process of printing from a raised inked surface; something printed using the letterpress process; (British) printed text (as opposed to illustrations)
Letterpress printing
Letterpress printing is a technique of
relief printing using a
printing press, a process by which many copies are produced by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against sheets or a continuous roll of paper. A worker composes and locks
movable type into the "bed" or "chase" of a press,
inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer the ink from the type which creates an impression on the paper.
letterpress
Noun
1. printing from a plate with raised characters
(synonym) relief printing
(hypernym) printing, printing process
Letterpress
(n.)
Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
letterpress
Synonyms and related words:
advance sheets, advertising matter, albertype, book printing, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, collotype, color printing, electronography, electrostatic printing, graphic arts, gravure, halftone engraving, history of printing, impress, impression, imprint, job printing, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mackle, mimeograph, offcut, offprint, offset, offset lithography, onset, palaeotypography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, print, printed matter, printing, printmaking, publication, publishing, reading matter, reissue, relief printing, reprint, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, setoff, sheetwork, stamp, stencil, text, three-color printing, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography
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