'Letterpress' definitions:
Definition of 'letterpress'
(from WordNet)
noun
Printing from a plate with raised characters [syn: relief printing, letterpress]
Definition of 'Letterpress'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'letterpress'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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