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One who makes prints.
- Old Japanese colour-prints are printed on a sheet of mulberry-bark paper, and are the product of three different craftsmen: the artist who drew the original design, the block-maker or engraver who transferred the design to the wood, and the
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The operator of a printing press or the owner of a printing business; (metonymic) any printing business.
- IMPRINTED at London in Fleteſtrete by Thomas Berthelet, printer to the kynges highnes, the ſeconde of July, the yere of our lorde. M. DXLV. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum ſolum.
- Never one to waste an opportunity, he says now: "The low points? You can read about them in my forthcoming book! It's at the printers now.
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A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.
- The use of the Hughes type printer is extending on the main circuits, where speed of transmission is a great object; but it is highly improbable that it will ever be adopted, except on main circuits.
- By the use of these keys in conjunction with the other keys, the operator has perfect control over the receiving printer at the distant station.
syn. imprint · publisher · publishing house · printseller · printshop · printing shop · printing house · imprimery