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Definition of Printing ink
1. Noun. A semisolid quick drying ink made especially for use in printing.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Printing Ink
Literary usage of Printing ink
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1833)
"On the Preparation of printing ink ; both Black and Coloured. By WILLIAM SAVAGE,
Author of " Practical Hints on Decorative Printing." 8vo. pp. 185. ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Art of Printing by William Savage (1841)
"As I believe that I am the only person who has written a practical work on the
subject, I will give an extract from the preface of my work on printing ink, ..."
3. The Invention of Printing: A Collection of Facts and Opinions Descriptive of by Theodore Low De Vinne (1878)
"But the ink of the Psalter was a true printing ink, a smoke-black mixed with oil.
The modern pressman, who has ineffectually tried to make ordinary printing ..."
4. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Lithographic printing-ink resembles that for letterpress, but is ground up with
burned ... Copperplate printing-ink is similar to that for letterpress, ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"A weak solution of gum and water is applied and the stone rolled up with printing
ink. It is then etched in the same manner as an original drawing and is ..."
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