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cylinder press

noun

  1. a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.


cylinder press

noun

  1. printing another name for flat-bed press
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cylinder press1

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
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A December 1887 issue of the Tribune lauded a new cylinder press weighing nearly one ton.

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Was it other than the modern newspaper thrown off by the pulsing of the great cylinder press?

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This machine was of that class known as cylinder presses.

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The invention of the half-tone, together with the invention of the modern two-revolution cylinder press which has brought printing into its present state of perfection, made necessary radical improvements in the machinery for making electrotypes.

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The article describing Hoe's cylinder press is a collection of badly-constructed sentences.

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