perfecting press

noun

, Printing.

1. a rotary press for printing both sides of a sheet or web in one operation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of perfecting press¹

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Example Sentences

In the annals of hero-worship the inventor of the perfecting press ought to stand before the great general, and Elias Howe should rank before Napoleon.

From Project Gutenberg

Then came the perfecting press, a far smaller machine, but capable of five times as much work, thanks to the substitution of rolls of paper for separate sheets fed in one by one.

From Project Gutenberg

To-day a perfecting press, with the aid of four men, does four times as much work.

From Project Gutenberg

"Straightline newspaper perfecting" press, prints 100,000 eight-page papers per hour—Goss Company, United States.

From Project Gutenberg

Its founder, Calvert Byron Cottrell, was an inventor of many devices used in modern printing and his son, Charles P. Cottrell, who died last week at the age of 74, developed the magazine rotary press and also the multi-colored rotary perfecting press which prints four colors on one side of the paper, two on the other.

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