noun

• 1Printing from a hard raised image under pressure, using viscous ink.

  ‘Printing on aluminum foil can be accomplished by any commercial process, including rotogravure, flexography, lithography, and letterpress.’

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  • ‘Photography liberated painting from strict representation to become abstract and impressionist; television made movies into art as well, and digital printing makes us reverse woodtype, lead, and letterpress.’
  • ‘The first edition of the album sleeve was done by letterpress, an old and rather inefficient means of printing.’
  • ‘I think perhaps this explains my addiction to letterpress.’
  • ‘Only a few artists have used letterpress in such a visually creative way.’

• 2British Printed text as opposed to illustrations.

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  • ‘the letterpress accompanying the illustrations’