printworks

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A printworks is a factory or facility where printing is done, especially on an industrial scale.

The term traditionally referred to establishments producing printed textiles or wallpaper, though it now applies to any large-scale printing operation: The old printworks has been converted into apartments.

Common in British English.

printing-facility

press

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warehouse · industrial · mill · bindery · typesetting · inking · rollers · guillotine · folding · collating

printmaking

lithography

Grease-based flat plate printing

woodcut · screenprinting · intaglio · silkscreen · letterpress · relief · aquatint · monotype · linotype · impression

publishing

editor

One who revises text

journalism · copywriting · bestseller · literary · royalties · genre · colophon · hardcover · paperback · galley

venue

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Evening entertainment venue

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production method

printworksscriptorium

Monastery manuscript workshop

handwriting · artisan workshop · copy shop

scale of operation

printworkshome office

Residential work area

copy shop · small press

Family

work, print, works, printer, printing, workshop, printed, imprint, reprint

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Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G