printworker

A person who works in the printing industry, particularly as an employee at a printing house or printworks.

Noun

  1. A person who works in the printing industry, particularly as an employee at a printing house or printworks.
    • Of particular interest is the minimum earning guarantee which, in 1997, meant that a class III printworker was guaranteed to earn at least £182.70 for a basic working week. - 1999 May 5, Mark Andrew Stuart, Skill...
    • Long before being bitten by the writing bug, Mark began his professional life as a printworker, an experience which was to serve him well. - 2012 August 31, Jason Holmes, “Mark Baxter: Backing A Winner”, in HuffPost,...
    • That defeat of the miners in the mid-1980s – combined with other defeats of unions, most notably the printworkers at Wapping – was intended to offer a salutary lesson […] - 2022 October 11, Owen Jones, “From barristers...

Origin

From print + worker.

Forms

printworkers print-worker print worker

Related

printer printmaker