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Printing vs Imprinting - What's the difference?

printing | imprinting |

As nouns the difference between printing and imprinting

is that printing is (uncountable) the process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology while imprinting is (psychology|ethology) any kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.

As verbs the difference between printing and imprinting

is that printing is while imprinting is .

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)

    • imprinting

    English

    Noun

  • (psychology, ethology) Any kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.

    • Derived terms

    * misimprinting * sexual imprinting

    Verb

    (head)