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Definition of printer's devil in English: printer's devilnoun historical A person, typically a young boy serving as an apprentice, who ran errands in a printing office. 〈史〉印刷所学徒 Example sentencesExamples - In our part of the world, they were typically published, with less rather than more regularity, on the cheapest paper imaginable, on presses run by printer's devils, on tiny budgets which usually came out of someone's personal savings.
- A printer's devil did all those nasty jobs of setting type, running the press, putting foundry type back in the cases, cleaning up the messy press.
- With new technologies of electronic transmission we cannot even blame the fabled ‘printer's devils.’
- Lufkin attorney Eddie McFarland, 82, talks at his law office downtown about his days as a newspaper carrier and printer's devil, or apprentice, in the 1930s and '40s.
- Blame the printer's devil, not Ms Lakshmi for this one!
Definition of printer's devil in US English: printer's devilnoun historical A person, typically a young boy, serving at or below the level of apprentice in a printing establishment. 〈史〉印刷所学徒 Example sentencesExamples - Lufkin attorney Eddie McFarland, 82, talks at his law office downtown about his days as a newspaper carrier and printer's devil, or apprentice, in the 1930s and '40s.
- Blame the printer's devil, not Ms Lakshmi for this one!
- In our part of the world, they were typically published, with less rather than more regularity, on the cheapest paper imaginable, on presses run by printer's devils, on tiny budgets which usually came out of someone's personal savings.
- With new technologies of electronic transmission we cannot even blame the fabled ‘printer's devils.’
- A printer's devil did all those nasty jobs of setting type, running the press, putting foundry type back in the cases, cleaning up the messy press.
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