Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus for printing with types or typographic forms, more elaborate than a hand-press; a printing-press adapted for operation at greater speed, and commonly with larger areas of type, than a hand-press; a power-press (properly so called, although with some of the smaller forms manual power may be used). See
printing-press .
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Blue-chip companies including engineering giant Siemens AG, consumer-goods maker Henkel AG and printing-machine maker Heidelberger Druck AG have all announced large-scale job cuts lately, blaming problems including the high euro, raw-material prices, slower global growth and the credit-market mess that has shaken confidence on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Some are technicians, able to run a printing-machine or mend a broken Bible van.
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They are next sent downstairs and placed on the _press_, or printing-machine.
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In the short space of one hour 20,000 copies are thrown off the printing-machine, and, thanks to the express train, the same day the paper can be read in Glasgow.
Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair
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Reference has been made to the web perfecting printing-machine in the
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They can only just make that dust cohere, and while it coheres (a little while for a dot and a longer while for a dash) the current from this battery -- the home battery "-- he laid his hand on the thing --" can get through to the Morse printing-machine to record the dot or dash.
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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The islanders in the Vier Marchi turned to the booths for refreshments, or to the printing-machine set up near La Pyramide, and bought halfpenny chapsheets telling of recent defeats of the French; though mostly they told in ebullient words of the sea-fight which had made Philip d'Avranche an admiral, and of his elevation to a sovereign dukedom.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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The islanders in the Vier Marchi turned to the booths for refreshments, or to the printing-machine set up near La Pyramide, and bought halfpenny chapsheets telling of recent defeats of the French; though mostly they told in ebullient words of the sea-fight which had made Philip d'Avranche an admiral, and of his elevation to a sovereign dukedom.
The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897
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The islanders in the Vier Marchi turned to the booths for refreshments, or to the printing-machine set up near La Pyramide, and bought halfpenny chapsheets telling of recent defeats of the French; though mostly they told in ebullient words of the sea-fight which had made Philip d'Avranche an admiral, and of his elevation to a sovereign dukedom.
The Battle of the Strong — Volume 6 A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897
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I miss my darling printing-machine very much, and have had again to have recourse to an amanuensis in order to escape the intolerable tedium of copying my own lucubrations, and also to spare the poor. printers 'eyes, to whom my vile handwriting will be doubly trying after the delightfully clear printed sheets I have been supplying them with for some time past.
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