flat-bed press

noun

1. a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder Also calledcylinder press

Example Sentences

On the ground floor in front was the business office, and in the rear the one large flat bed press and the job presses.

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She ran into the Herald office and on into the composing room where Tom was locking the last page on the old flat-bed press.

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It was a flat bed press and was long used in Washington in printing for the government.

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Lithographic prints from stones prepared in this way are made on a flat-bed press.

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