The tympan is the framework in a hand press that restrains the individual sheets and thus, through its various settings, ensures the proper disposition of text and margin, language and silence.
It was printed on a hand press, in which ink was rolled over the raised surfaces of hand-set letters held together within a wooden form.
This small quarto contains an account of the making of the hand-press upon which it was printed.
The printing press upon which they worked was a Colombian hand press invented by George Clymer in Philadelphia in 1813.
An iron hand press operated by two people prints 200 to 250 sheets per hour.
Definition of hand press in US English:
hand press
noun
A printing press that is operated by hand.
Example sentencesExamples
The tympan is the framework in a hand press that restrains the individual sheets and thus, through its various settings, ensures the proper disposition of text and margin, language and silence.
It was printed on a hand press, in which ink was rolled over the raised surfaces of hand-set letters held together within a wooden form.
An iron hand press operated by two people prints 200 to 250 sheets per hour.
This small quarto contains an account of the making of the hand-press upon which it was printed.
The printing press upon which they worked was a Colombian hand press invented by George Clymer in Philadelphia in 1813.