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Publishing: printing & word processing
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boldface
boldfaced
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print something out
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Examples from literature

Before the printing press, new ideas could not travel easily around the world. 
By the year 1500, many cities in Europe had a printing press. 
He called his machine a printing press. 
The printing press used metal letters, ink, and paper. 

printing press | American Dictionary

printing press
noun[ C ]
us/ˈprɪn·tɪŋ ˌpres/
a machine that prints text or images, esp. to produce books, magazines, and newspapers

printing press | Business English

printing press
noun[ C ]
 COMMUNICATIONS, PRODUCTIONukus
a machine that prints books, newspapers, or magazines:
Our printing presses have the capacity to handle large quantities of high-quality printing for our customers.

Examples of printing press

printing press
In the terms of this counterdiscourse, we can see that the printingpress introduces not only moral corruption, but also several other kinds.
He notes a printingpress present 1480 + 88 and the origins of steeplechasing there in 1830.
Since the invention of the printingpress the split between script and performance has become ever more problematic.
I imagine our current wonder at the power of information might only be compared to the era of the invention of the printingpress.
Already the book's own road to the printingpress reflected this fundamental belief.
The printingpress had provided only a one dimensional language.
Somehow in 1633 he obtained the capital to set up another printingpress.
I consider these changes within the context of past innovations, including the rise of the printingpress, the telegraph, the newspaper, and radio.
The printingpress changed the organization of religion and government.
The most important innovations are ones that facilitate the transmission of this information: writing, the alphabet, the printingpress.
According to some discussions concerning new information technologies and technologically enhanced communication, we are now in a revolution as profound as the printingpress.
From its initial usage to propagate religious literature, the printingpress has gone from strength to strength, in terms of spread and application.
He used the printingpress to popularise this idea.
Their energy at the printingpress outstripped their due proportion : 3,750 titles by 1700.
With the printingpress in place he said all that was required was 'paper and ink'.
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