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Handwriting vs Printing - What's the difference?

handwriting | printing |

As nouns the difference between handwriting and printing

is that handwriting is the act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed while printing is the process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.

As verbs the difference between handwriting and printing

is that handwriting is present participle of lang=en while printing is present participle of lang=en.

handwriting

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed.
  • The characteristic writing of a particular person.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, author=F. Marion Crawford, title=Taquisara, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It was still early in the morning when Elettra brought her a letter, bearing the postmark of the city, and addressed in one of those small, clear handwritings which seem naturally to belong to scholars and students. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Joseph B. Lightfoot, title=Essays on "Supernatural Religion", chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In some handwritings of the seventh or eighth century, where the letters have a round form, the substitution of OT for EG would be far from difficult. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1914, author=P. S. Allen, title=The Age of Erasmus, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Great libraries are only just beginning to gather up the manuscript minutiae which their books contain; to identify handwritings ; to decipher monograms; to collect facts. }}
  • Text that was written by hand.

    • Synonyms

    * (the act or process of writing done by hand) longhand * (text written by hand) manuscript

    Related terms

    * handwritten * handwrite * handwrit

    See also

    * cursive

    Verb

    (head)

    • printing

    English

    (wikipedia printing)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.
  • (uncountable) Material that has been printed.
  • (countable) All the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch.
  • (uncountable) Written characters that are not joined up.

    • Verb

    (head)