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Printing vs Photostat - What's the difference?

printing | photostat |

As nouns the difference between printing and photostat

is that printing is the process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology while photostat is a photocopy, especially one made by a Photostat machine

As verbs the difference between printing and photostat

is that printing is present participle of lang=en while photostat is to make such a photocopy.

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)

    • photostat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) A photocopy, especially one made by a (Photostat machine)
  • positive (black on white) or negative (white on black) reproduction of printed matter or artwork made on a photostat machine, which uses photographic paper instead of a transparent negative, and uses a prism to render the paper negative readable instead of reversed.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make such a photocopy.
  • * 2008 , Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself
    • as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.