print cutter (printkut"er)

Aplain or a mechanical knife, such as a small knife-edged wheel mounted in a handle, for cutting photographic prints to shape and size. The prints are usually cut on a piece of gla , by means of a rule or a caliber of gla of the required size. printer (prin'ter), n. 1. One who prints, impre es, or stamps by impre ion; a person whose busine it is to produce copies or superficial transfers of anything by pre ure, as in a pre or the like, or by the agency of light on a sensitized surface, as in photography: usually distinguished, when not specific (def. 2), by an adjunct: as, a lithographic printer; a plate - printer; a calico - printer.-2. A person who practises or carries on the busine of typographical printing; one who understands the mechanical proce of producing printed matter for reading; specifically, as used of workmen, a compositor, or one who manipulates the types.-3. One who sells what he prints or procures the printing of; hence, a publisher of books or of a periodical. The early printers were generally also publishers, producing works on their own account; and the word printer long retained this extended meaning. Thus, most of the letters of Junius were addre ed "To the Printer of the Public Advertiser" - the printer, Wood fall, being its proprietor, editor, and publisher. [Now nearly obsolete.] Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. Fuller , Books. 4. A telegraphic instrument which makes records in printed characters; a telegraphic printing instrument. Edison's various devices in his old stock printer have formed the basis of all later variations on that sort of in strument . Harper's Mag . , LXXX. 432. Mechanical printer, a type-writer.- Motor printer. See motor. Printers' Bible a Bible printed prior to 1702, mentioned by Cotton Mather as containing the word printers in place of princes in Ps. cxix. 161: "Print ers have persecuted me without a cause." - Printer's devil. See devil. - Printer's flower, an ornamental design at the end of a printed book; a tail-piece. - Printer's imprint. See imprint, 2.- Printers' ink. See printing ink.- Printer's mark, an engraved device, sometimes a monogram or a rebus, used by printers as a trade-mark. - Printers' ream, or printing ream, the ordinary ream of 480 sheets, to which 14 quires are added as an allowance for waste in printing, making 516 sheets: sometimes, but improperly, called a perfect ream. [Eng.] Printers' roller. See inking -roller. - Printers' varnish, a varnish made of nut or linseed-oil, black resin, and dry brown soap. Public printer, an official of the United States government who has charge of the government printing-office at Washington. =Syn. Compositor, Printer. Before the introduction of power-pre es both pre men and compositors were called printers; but these cla es are now nearly always distinct, and the term printer more especially, but le appropriately, designates the latter. printery (printer-i), n.; pl. printeries (-iz). [