to overprint

Examples

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• The next begins at 5,000 Marks (overprinted on an old 40-Pfennig stamp) and runs to 2 million (overprinted on an old 5,000-Mark stamp).

  Academic text (1992)

• Until new stamps were printed, existing stamps were overprinted with Rossija, in Latin and Cyrillic type, for use within Russia (Scott's 2008, 696).

  Academic text (2011)

• Locally overprinted stamps were sold and used in Saint Petersburg.

  Academic text (2011)

• Her figure in another minute will be impossible to distinguish from all the others tangled along the sand, the overprinted alphabet of silhouettes.

  Fiction book (1990)

• An overprinted clear varnish helps create the ghost images that linger, insisting on their presence through the blackness.

  Blog text (21)

• Almost a decade later (May 14, 1948), this same postage stamp was reissued with the year "1948" overprinted on the earlier stamp.

  Academic text (1992)

• Hideous inflation due to overprinting dollars, losing the reserve status of our currency, and what may well happen to the costs of everything if the petrodollar is tanked should be explained to the populace at large.

  Blog text (18)

• The next begins at 5,000 Marks (overprinted on an old 40-Pfennig stamp) and runs to 2 million (overprinted on an old 5,000-Mark stamp).

  Academic text (1992)

• But considering the tiny part of overall costs they comprised, and how carelessly overprinted paperbacks were, paper costs weren't much of a factor in costs back then and would have had to increase by countless multiples to match the increase in paperback cover prices over the next few decades.

  Blog text (2)

• The printer will overprint the order information on the shipping labels for better visibility.

Synonyms

P

to print over

vsto overprint

• Specialized

6.0

To put new text or color on something that already has a design

includes adding images as well as text or colors onto printed material

O

to overstrike

vsto overprint

• Specialized

7.7

To print a new letter or symbol directly on top of an existing one

applies extra printing over existing material but not limited to single characters

Surface Forms

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Etymology