sheet-fed

[ sheet-fed ]

adjective

1. (of a printing press) fed by and designed to print individual flat sheets of paper.

sheet-fed

adjective

1. printing involving or printing on separate sheets of paper Compare reel-fed

Word History and Origins

Origin of sheet-fed¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Such markets have helped the Wuerzburg-based company to remain profitable even as demand for sheet-fed and web-fed presses plummeted.

From BusinessWeek

DC Thomson added that it is proposing to close its gravure, sheet-fed printing production and bookbinding operations in Dundee.

From The Guardian

Five additional weeks were required to engrave the photograph, print it some 7,000,000 times on a sheet-fed offset press and then pour on and properly shape the clear plastic film that covers the picture with what amounts to a collection of lenses.

From Time Magazine Archive

To get sharper differentiation between the lines and patterns, it was printed as if it were a piece of fine art�by sheet-fed offset on heavy paper�and then was bound with the rest of the magazine, which came off rotary letter presses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Working from bound volumes or anything that could not be sheet-fed also constituted a factor eliminating companies that would have performed OCR.

From Project Gutenberg