名词

1. （书籍的）一次印刷
If copies of a book are printed and published on a number of different occasions, you can refer to each of these occasions as a printing.

1. the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution

2. text handwritten in the style of printed matter

3. all the copies of a work printed at one time

e.g. they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies

Synonym: impression

4. reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication

Synonym: printing process