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cylinder press
noun
- a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
cylinder press
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cylinder press1
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Example Sentences
The Treadwell was not a cylinder press, but its invention would have been of no consequence without the composition roller.
Was it other than the modern newspaper thrown off by the pulsing of the great cylinder press?
A double cylinder press will give from 4000 to 6000 impressions an hour.
Figure 1, plate I, is the picture of such a cylinder press, made for stone-printing.
The power of a lever press is insufficient for larger stones, and a cylinder press is required.
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