Imprint vs Footmark - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between imprint and footmark

is that imprint is an impression; the mark left behind by printing something while footmark is footprint (an impression made by a foot).

is to leave a print, impression, image, etc.

From (etyl) empreinte, from the past participle of empreindre, from (etyl)

(en noun)

An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.

The day left an imprint in my mind.

The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.

A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.

The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve.

From (etyl) empreinter, from the past participle of empreindre, from (etyl)

(en verb)

To leave a print, impression, image, etc.

For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.

* Prior

And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands.

* Cowper

Nature imprints upon whate'er we see, / That has a heart and life in it, "Be free."

* John Locke

ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind

To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's mother is.

To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.