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Definition of Cylinder press
1. Noun. A printing press where the type is carried on a flat bed under a cylinder that holds paper and rolls over the type.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cylinder Press
Literary usage of Cylinder press
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of the Printing Press and of the Improvements in Printing by Robert] [Hoe (1902)
"SINGLE LARGE cylinder press machines known as the " Single Small Cylinder ...
Hoe & Co. had previously made the first flat bed and cylinder press ever used ..."
2. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1852)
"After this, completing the press making department, we come lo the cylinder press
rooms, occupying one entire flat of the building, in which we find the ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Working quite as well as the platen press, the cylinder press is enormously
quicker and more productive ; it requires less driving power ; and much better ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1909)
"The cylinder press derives its name from the fact that the sheet of paper is ...
Not a great many years ago, the press known as the stop-cylinder press was ..."
5. Modern Industrial Progress by Charles Henry Cochrane (1904)
"This change has gone Thc Scou Cylinder Pn-ss. on gradually, until the cylinder
press, on which the great bulk of pictorial printing is done, ..."
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