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Printing vs Printed - What's the difference?

printing | printed |

As verbs the difference between printing and printed

is that printing is while printed is (print).

As a noun printing

is (uncountable) the process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.

As an adjective printed is

pertaining to something written or published.

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)

    • printed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to something written or published.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (print)