Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The customary work of a job-printer, such as the printing of cards, handbills, bill-heads, posters, etc. The term is also applied to pamphlet-catalogues, illustrated or in colors.

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Examples

  • He launched his own job-printing shop in the middle of it and nearly starved (as did his son, which would have been the end of me).

    Of Grit 2009

  • The older establishment was left at length with the job-printing orders from the town, and the circulation of the Charente

    Two Poets 2007

  • They did not slander him now; on the contrary, wise policy required that they should allow the business to flicker on; it was to their interest indeed to maintain it in a small way, lest it should fall into the hands of some more formidable competitor; they made a practice of sending prospectuses and circulars — job-printing, as it is called — to the

    Two Poets 2007

  • The older establishment was left at length with the job-printing orders from the town, and the circulation of the Charente

    Two Poets 2007

  • They did not slander him now; on the contrary, wise policy required that they should allow the business to flicker on; it was to their interest indeed to maintain it in a small way, lest it should fall into the hands of some more formidable competitor; they made a practice of sending prospectuses and circulars — job-printing, as it is called — to the

    Two Poets 2007

  • At first nobody would print them, but a friend of ours worked in the job-printing shop at the Gazette and volunteered to run off a few flyers between jobs.

    The Cat Who Moved A Mountain Braun, Lilian Jackson 1992

  • And he didn't work at the Observer too long till he quit and went to work for a job-printing firm there in Charlotte.

    Oral History Interview with Jefferson M. Robinette, 1977 July. Interview H-41. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Jefferson M. Robinette Jefferson M. Robinette 1977

  • And he didn't work at the Observer too long till he quit and went to work for a job-printing firm there in Charlotte.

    Oral History Interview with Jefferson M. Robinette, July 1977. Interview H-0041. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1977

  • Mr. Fairbanks worked diligently with brain and hands, wrote matter for the Blade, managed its mechanical details, and at the same time spent time, labor, and money in enlarging the capabilities of the office and building up a valuable job-printing business.

    Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin

  • An up-to-date printing plant had been installed to print the _Guide_ and do a general job-printing business, and this was organized as a separate company under the name of the "Public Press, Limited."

    Deep Furrows Hopkins Moorhouse

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