cylinder press

1. 1.

   a printing press where the type is carried on a flat bed under a cylinder that holds paper and rolls over the type

   Synonymsflatbed press

   Broaderpress

Questions about cylinder press

What does cylinder press mean?

cylinder press means "a printing press where the type is carried on a flat bed under a cylinder that holds paper and rolls over the type".

What is another word for cylinder press?

Close synonyms include flatbed press. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cylinder press a common word?

cylinder press is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.