printing press

noun

a machine, as a cylinder press or rotary press, for printing on paper or the like from type, plates, etc.

Origin

1580-90

Examples from the web for printing press

After being developed in an acid bath would be placed onto a printing press.
Religion is from a time prior to science and the printing press when people could not tell fact from fiction.
The invention of the printing press precipitated the development of both journalism and science.
In fact, our electronic novelties are transforming the word as profoundly as the printing press did half a millennium ago.
As with the printing press, ink was applied to paper using pressure.
Science textbooks are born as clunky, out-of-date tomes the moment they roll off the printing press.
The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.
When the printing press was invented, many monks mourned the decline of vellum and the loss of the illuminator's art.
Nothing inherent in using a website as a publication medium rather than a printing press makes anyone less inclined to do that.
The problem of a minority having too much power is older than the printing press.

British Dictionary definitions for printing press

noun

any of various machines used for printing

Encyclopedia Article for printing press

machine by which images are transferred to paper by means of ink

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