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The answer LETTERPRESS has 5 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of letterpress in various dictionaries:
noun - printing from a plate with raised characters
The process of printing from a raised inked surface.
Something printed in this fashion.
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| Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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| Jul 20 2013 The Times - Cryptic |
| Apr 4 2009 The Telegraph - Cryptic |
| Oct 2 2007 Thomas Joseph - King Feature Syndicate |
| Jul 8 2006 The Times - Concise |
| Aug 1 2002 The Times - Concise |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| printing from a hard raised image under pressure, using viscous ink. |
| printing from a plate with raised characters |
| a method of printing in which raised surfaces covered with ink are pressed onto paper |
| The process of printing from a raised inked surface. |
| Something printed in this fashion. |
| Chiefly British The text, as of a book, distinct from illustrations or other ornamentation. |
| Letterpress might refer to |
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| Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing using a printing press, a process by which many copies are produced by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against sheets or a continuous roll of paper. A worker composes and locks movable type into the "bed" or "chase" of a press, inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer the ink from the type which creates an impression on the paper. * In practice, letterpress also includes other forms of relief printing with printing presses, such as wood engravings, photo-etched zinc "cuts" (plates), and linoleum blocks, which can be used alongside metal type, or wood type, in a single operation, as well as stereotypes and electrotypes of type and blocks. With certain letterpress units it is also possible to join movable type with slugs cast using hot metal typesetting. In theory, anything that is "type high" or .918 inches can be printed using letterpress.Letterpress printing was the normal form of printing text from i |