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Letterpress

Letterpress Meaning & Definition
Letterpress Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Letterpress?

[n] printing from a plate with raised characters

Synonyms | Synonyms for Letterpress: relief printing

Related Terms | Find terms related to Letterpress: 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 | photochemical process | photoengraving | photogelatin process | photographic reproduction | photography | photolithography | photo-offset | 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

See Also | printing | printing process

Letterpress In Webster's Dictionary

\Let"ter*press`\ (-t[~e]r*pr[e^]s`), n. Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.

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