job printer

noun

1. a printer who does letterheads, invoices, announcements, and other miscellaneous work, as distinguished from one who works solely on books, periodicals, etc.

Other Words From

• job printing noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of job printer¹

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Example Sentences

Eventually, Hume entered into a shadowy partnership with a marketing mastermind named Frederick Trischler, who brought the book out in 1886 as a cheap paperback produced by a local job printer.

From Washington Post

Whenever he could spare the money, which was seldom enough, Yonosuke Itakura, a poverty-stricken job printer, sent his sickly daughter Yoko from Tokyo to the hot springs in the Buddhist Temple of the Understanding Way in the mountains of Hakone.

From Time Magazine Archive

But no job printer was able to handle the order.

From Time Magazine Archive

The following day, Tupper's loyal outcry was in the hands of a job printer, and within 48 hours 100 copies were on their way to the Queen, to Tupper's friends and to newspapers in Britain and the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet the most important fact about Painter Max Kuehne is that he has paid his bills, kept off relief, put a son through college and furnished a comfortable Manhattan apartment because a dozen famed collectors and nearly as many museums consider him the best picture framer in the U. S. To one who has been at different times a dentist's assistant, an electrical engineer, an errand boy, a stenographer, an insurance clerk and a job printer, mechanical dexterity came easy.

From Time Magazine Archive