printing press

noun

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

printing press

noun

1. any of various machines used for printing

Word History and Origins

Origin of printing press¹

First recorded in 1580–90

Example Sentences

We are living in the greatest information revolution in human history, even greater than the printing press.

From Time

Take, for example, a newspaper business with a printing press that cost $10 million and will last for, say, 20 years.

From ProPublica

Subhash makes a living selling fish and owns a printing press.

From Washington Post

If you’re not fed, if you don’t have a museum, if you don’t have paints, if you don’t have ink and printing presses, you don’t have beauty.

From Nautilus

This is how media executives must have felt as they poured money into digital assets over the past two decades even though their printing presses were not yet fully written off.

From Fortune

I bought a printing press and started printing little booklets.

From The Daily Beast

Back then, new technology also was to blame—though then it was the invention of the color printing press, not the Internet.

From The Daily Beast

Things like evolutionary theory, the internet, and the printing press did not appear miraculously in a dream.

From The Daily Beast

After all, the novel is itself, to some extent, a creation of a new technology: the printing press.

From The Daily Beast

The books are photocopied, or sometimes printed, at an old printing press in Salt Market Village.

From The Daily Beast

I have a printing-press, a collection of birds' eggs, and some white bantams and some rabbits.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1709 a printing press was set up in Newport and a public printer appointed.

From Project Gutenberg

But, since the power of the printing press has risen, the influence of the priesthood has diminished.

From Project Gutenberg

James Franklin sets up a printing press in Newport after having failed to establish a newspaper in Boston.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet this was a new name too, for the people of the Middle Ages would not have known what a printing-press was.

From Project Gutenberg