present-participle adjective from print (v.). Printing press "machine for taking impression from an inked surface upon paper" is from 1580s.

late 14c., "art or process of making impressions or imprints by pressing into a soft surface; writing, written characters;" verbal noun from print (v.). Meaning "total number of copies printed at the same time" is from 1520s.

"make an error in printing (something)," late 15c.; from mis- (1) + print (v.). Related: misprinted; misprinting. The noun, "an error made in printing," is attested by 1745.

1824, from type (n.) in the printing sense + verbal noun from set (v.).

18c. variant of dispatch (q.v.), apparently the result of an error in the printing of Johnson's dictionary.

also type-setter, "compositor," 1800, from type (n.) in the printing sense + setter.

also in-line, 1913 of printing, 1921 of engines, 1958 of computers, by 1989 of roller skates; from in + line (n.).

type of rotary printing technique, 1952, from combining form of flexible (in reference to the plate used) + -graphy in the literal sense.

"lead work; lead covering or frame of lead," mid-15c., verbal noun from lead (n.1). Printing sense is from 1855.