overprint

[ verb oh-ver-print; noun oh-ver-print ]

verb (used with object)

1. Printing. to print additional material or another color on a form or sheet previously printed.

noun

1. Printing. a quantity of printing in excess of that desired; overrun.
2. Philately.
   1. any word, inscription, or device written or printed on the face of a stamp that alters, limits, or describes its use, place of issue, or character.
   2. a stamp so marked.

overprint

verb

1. tr to print (additional matter or another colour) on a sheet of paper

noun

1. additional matter or another colour printed onto a previously printed sheet
2. additional matter, other than a change in face value, applied to a finished postage stamp by printing, stamping, etc See also surcharge provisional

Word History and Origins

Origin of overprint¹

First recorded in 1850–55; over- + print

Example Sentences

Additionally, the researchers demonstrated overprinting of a ball lens onto an optical fiber, which was previously only possible using an additive manufacturing technique known as two-photon polymerization.

From Science Daily

The results of both studies reveal a shift in El Niño patterns, where human activities are now overprinting natural factors to shape its behaviour.

From Science Daily

He badgers librarians with questions and requests curators to conduct spectral tests on selected pictures to see what concealed image lurks beneath layers of overprint.

From Washington Post

The other subjects include a few near-abstract nature scenes and an owl rendered in bold black lines overprinted with areas of arboreal brown and tan.

From Washington Post

The slides are overprinted with the artists’ own texts, which critique the colonizing role of anthropologists and archaeologists.

From New York Times