printing
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1.1
- noun
- /ˈprɪntɪŋ/
- To the surprise of almost everyone involved, it was successful enough to warrant a second printing that same year.
- first printing
- a printing of copies
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- So God knows how many printings it's gone through at this point.
Examples
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Then I picked it up and noticed that it was in its seventy-eighth printing!
Fiction book (1999) -
"Three months after its release, How to Be a Jewish Mother was in its fourth printing.
Academic text (2010) -
The entire first printing will always be available.
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Three years after publication, my book is in its second printing and still selling all over the world.
Academic text (2009) -
The current cover is for the first "Kickstarter" printing only; subsequent printings will have an alternate cover.
Blog text (9) -
Lange's Cochiti volume carries a copyright and first printing date of 1959, with a Library of Congress number in 1958.
Academic text (1990) -
The first two printings of Tree Men of Quazzak had sold less than thirty thousand paperback copies.
Fiction book (1991) -
With its laudatory account creating a pantheon of heroes, it sold very well, going through three printings by 1931.
Academic text (2005) -
For the most part, we encounter these orphans only through reproductions, editions, many successive printings, and performances.
Academic text (2007) -
The most popular volume, Love Letters, sold out its first printing of more than 20,000 copies.
Synonyms
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3.7
The number of copies made for one edition of a magazine, book or newspaper
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4.8
The copies of a book printed at the same time
Compounds
- Formal
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4.8
A former U.S. agency that printed and bound official government documents
- Specialized
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4.9
A printing method that transfers ink from a metal plate to a rubber sheet and then to paper
- Specialized
1
8.5
A printing method where an image is cut into a metal plate and the cuts hold ink to make prints
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6.8
A United States government office that designs and prints paper money and other secure government papers
- Specialized
1
6.8
A printing method where you press ink on raised parts of a block onto paper
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6.5
A former government office that made and put together official United States documents for Congress and federal departments
A former U.S. government agency that printed and bound official documents for Congress and other federal offices
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3.0
A company that makes real objects from computer designs using special machines
- Archaic
1
9.9
A printing method that uses a glass plate covered in gelatin to make very detailed photos, sometimes in color
- Specialized
1
9.3
A printing method using a flat surface where ink sticks to some parts and not others
- Specialized
A printing method that moves an image from a raised plate to a roller before printing on material
- Specialized
A printing method that uses a metal plate and a rubber sheet to print images on paper
How Reproducible
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Morphology
Etymology
Printing comes from Latin imprimere 'to press', and a 'printing' originally meant the copies made in one run on the press. So a first printing is a set of copies of a book or paper produced at the same time.