On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Letterpress. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as printing and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Letterpress in a sentence
Letterpress meaning
- The printing process in which ink is applied to the top surface of a raised image area, which is then pressed against paper to transfer the image.
- Printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
- A machine used for such printing.
Synonyms of Letterpress
Using Letterpress
- The main meaning on this page is: The printing process in which ink is applied to the top surface of a raised image area, which is then pressed against paper to transfer the image. | Printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates. | A machine used for such printing.
- Useful related words include: relief printing, printing, printing process.
- In the example corpus, letterpress often appears in combinations such as: letterpress printing, and letterpress, of letterpress.
Context around Letterpress
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Letterpress
- In this selection, "letterpress" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, antique, novelists, vandercook, printing, printers and using stand out and add context to how "letterpress" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include bookbinding and letterpress printing throughout and bookmaking and letterpress classes discovering. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "letterpress" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with letterpress
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Dafi Kühne poses next to one version of a letterpress. (10 words)
She took several bookmaking and letterpress classes, discovering that as her medium. (12 words)
More recently, letterpress printing has seen a revival in an artisanal form. (12 words)
Letterpress printing was the normal form of printing text from its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century and remained in wide use for books and other uses until the second half of the 20th century, when offset printing was developed. (43 words)
Matter is an anomaly in a digital world: a graphic-design firm where printing is done the old-fashioned way, with metal type on a hand-cranked letterpress, using design elements that are distinctly modern in thinking and impact. (39 words)
The postage stamp-sized storefront on Clement Street, which is set inside a laundry and has classroom space downstairs, also sports a 102-year-old Chandler Price clamshell letterpress that Savas uses for running custom jobs. (36 words)
Example sentences (15)
Kahmann operates A to Z Letterpress Printing in downtown Montevideo, where he continues the art of antique letterpress printing.
The festival is a celebration of regional press, zine, and comic arts, and an opportunity to view of comics artists and graphic novelists, letterpress printers, paper makers, and other creators of books and paper arts.
Artist Mary Bruno, adds pink ink to her Vandercook letterpress during a print party for ice cream shop Jupiter Moon in St. Joseph Minn. The parties are just one way she gathers community.
The fair will also showcase traditional skills, such as bookbinding and letterpress printing throughout the weekend.
Dafi Kühne poses next to one version of a letterpress.
Matter is an anomaly in a digital world: a graphic-design firm where printing is done the old-fashioned way, with metal type on a hand-cranked letterpress, using design elements that are distinctly modern in thinking and impact.
She took several bookmaking and letterpress classes, discovering that as her medium.
The postage stamp-sized storefront on Clement Street, which is set inside a laundry and has classroom space downstairs, also sports a 102-year-old Chandler Price clamshell letterpress that Savas uses for running custom jobs.
At that time, because of the dominance of letterpress printing, typesetting and printing took place in one location, and binding in a different factory.
Gutenberg's invention was the use of movable metal types, assembled into words, lines, and pages and then printed by letterpress to create multiple copies.
Letterpress printing was the normal form of printing text from its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century and remained in wide use for books and other uses until the second half of the 20th century, when offset printing was developed.
More recently, letterpress printing has seen a revival in an artisanal form.
These cards, slightly larger than today’s postcards, were produced by letterpress and wood engraving on coated card stock.
This letterpress printing technique was developed by English graphic artist Thomas Bewick near the end of the 18th century and became the most widely used reproduction system for illustrations over the years.
Typewriters, school dittos, church mimeos and (if they could afford it) multi-color letterpress or other mid-to-high level printing.
Common combinations with letterpress
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- letterpress printing 7×
- and letterpress 2×
- of letterpress 2×
- by letterpress 2×