Definition of Printing

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Printing

of Print

The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.

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Printing Quotations

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David Thoreau

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Ezra Pound

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.
John Sexton

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
Obie Trice

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.
Ernest Istook

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!
Matthew Lesko

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.
Shelby Foote

Printing Translations

printing in French is imprimant
printing in German is Drucken, druckend
printing in Italian is pressione
printing in Swedish is tryckning, utskrift

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