printing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɪntɪŋ/

Noun

printing (countable and uncountable, plural printings)

1. (uncountable) The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.
2. (uncountable) Material that has been printed.
3. (countable) All the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch.
4. (uncountable) Written characters that are not joined up.

Synonyms

• (the art of making prints): imprintery (obsolete)

Derived terms

• 3D printing
• block printing
• carbon printing
• nature printing
• non-printing
• offset printing
• pad printing
• printing form
• printing frame
• printing house
• printing-house
• printing in
• printing ink
• printing out
• printing press
• printing roll
• printing shop
• rat printing office
• relief printing
• rotary printing press
• screen printing
• silk-screen printing
• skip printing
• stretch printing
• viscosity printing
• woodblock printing

Translations

the process or business of producing printed material — see also typography

• Arabic: طِبَاعَة (ar) f (ṭibāʕa)
• Armenian: տպագրություն (hy) (tpagrutʻyun), տպում (hy) (tpum), գրատպություն (hy) (gratputʻyun)
• Belarusian: друкава́нне n (drukavánnje), друк m (druk), друка́рства n (drukárstva)
• Bulgarian: печа́тарство n (pečátarstvo)
• Catalan: impressió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印刷 (zh) (yìnshuā)

• Czech: tisk (cs) m
• Dutch: boekdrukkunst (nl) f, drukkunst (nl) f
• Finnish: kirjapainotaito (fi)
• French: imprimerie (fr) f
• German: Drucken (de) n, Druck (de) m
• Greek: τυπογραφία (el) f (typografía)
• Gujarati: છાપકામ (gu) (chāpkām)
• Irish: clódóireacht m
• Japanese: 印刷 (ja) (いんさつ, insatsu)
• Korean: 인쇄 (ko) (inswae)
• Kyrgyz: мөөр (ky) (möör)
• Macedonian: печатење n (pečatenje)
• Malay: pencetakan
• Ottoman Turkish: طبع (tabʼ)
• Persian: چاپ (fa) (čâp)
• Polish: drukarstwo (pl) n, druk (pl) m
• Portuguese: impressão (pt)
• Romanian: tipar (ro), tipografiere, imprimerie (ro)
• Russian: печа́тание (ru) n (pečátanije), печа́ть (ru) f (pečátʹ)
• Slovene: tiskanje n
• Spanish: impresión (es) f
• Swahili: uchapaji
• Ukrainian: друкува́ння n (drukuvánnja), друк m (druk), друка́рство n (drukárstvo)
• Vietnamese: in ấn (vi)

material that has been printed

• Malay: cetakan (ms)
• Romanian: tipăritură (ro)
• Ukrainian: друк m (druk)

all the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch

• Bulgarian: тираж (bg) m (tiraž)
• Danish: oplag n
• Dutch: oplage (nl) f
• Finnish: painos (fi)
• French: tirage (fr) m
• German: Auflage (de) f
• Italian: tiratura (it) f
• Macedonian: тира́ж m (tiráž)
• Norwegian: opplag (no)
• Portuguese: tiragem (pt) f
• Spanish: tirada (es) f
• Swedish: upplaga (sv) c
• Ukrainian: наклад m (naklad), тираж m (tyraž)

written characters not joined up

• Ukrainian: відбиток m (vidbytok)

Verb

printing

1. present participle and gerund of print
2. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) To inadequately carry a concealed weapon such that its silhouette is visible on the person wearing it.