Letterpress

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Letterpress \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.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in
           distinction from printing from plates.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  letterpress
       n : printing from a plate with raised characters [syn: {relief
           printing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
     photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving,
     photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography,
     photolithography, 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