relief printing

1. 1.

   printing from a plate with raised characters

   Synonymsletterpress

   Broaderprinting

Questions about relief printing

What does relief printing mean?

relief printing means "printing from a plate with raised characters".

What is another word for relief printing?

Close synonyms include letterpress. 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 relief printing a common word?

relief printing 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.