Associations to the word «Letterpress»

Wiktionary

LETTERPRESS, noun. The printing process in which ink is applied to the top surface of a raised image area, which is then pressed against paper to transfer the image.
LETTERPRESS, noun. (printing) : printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
LETTERPRESS, noun. A machine used for such printing.

Dictionary definition

LETTERPRESS, noun. Printing from a plate with raised characters.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope