| A | B |
| screw press | a screw drives the ram with the platen up and down |
| forme | type arranged in tray |
| platen | flat metal plate pressed against the medium to make an impression |
| matrix | a mold used to cast letters |
| type case | box that holds the different font faces |
| Intaglio | scratch the artwork on metal, ink fills the scratches |
| stereotyping | whole page cast into a mold |
| William Ged | invent stereotyping |
| vellum | high quality parchment |
| rotary printing | printing plate wrapped around a cylinder |
| Fredrich Koenig | invented a steam powered printing press |
| 1814 | up to 1100 pages per hour |
| jobbing press | small press for small format printing jobs, ie envelopes |
| Richard Hoe | invented the cylinder press |
| Lord Stanhope | Made a press from Iron |
| offset printing | ink transferred from the plate to rubber mat then the paper |
| The Times of London | first newspaper to use a steam powered press |
| impression | in printing, the act of placing ink on paper |
| iron press | 90% reduction of force required for printing when using an iron press |
| newspapers | spread literacy |