printing ink

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   a semisolid quick drying ink made especially for use in printing

   Synonymsprinter's ink

   Broaderink

Questions about printing ink

What does printing ink mean?

printing ink means "a semisolid quick drying ink made especially for use in printing".

What is another word for printing ink?

Close synonyms include printer's ink. 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 printing ink a common word?

printing ink 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.