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Printery vs Printshop - What's the difference?

printery | printshop |

As nouns the difference between printery and printshop

is that printery is a printing works while printshop is a shop where one can buy prints; a printseller's.

printery

English

Noun

(printeries)
  • A printing works

    • printshop

    English

    Alternative forms

    * print shop

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shop where one can buy prints; a printseller's.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.}}
  •   A shop offering commercial printing services; a printery or printing house.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 263:
  • *:As we have seen, government regulated the number of printshops throughout the realm [...] and enforced censorship throughout the land.