printworker

printworker

English

Alternative forms

  • print-worker, print worker

Etymology

From print +‎ worker.

Noun

printworker (plural printworkers)

  1. A person who works in the printing industry, particularly as an employee at a printing house or printworks.
    • 1999 May, Mark Andrew Stuart, Skill Formation and Restructuring within the UK Printing Industry‎[1], Leeds University Business School, archived from the original on 31 December 2025:
      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.
    • 2012 August 31, Jason Holmes, “Mark Baxter: Backing A Winner”, in HuffPost‎[2], archived from the original on 30 November 2023:
      Long before being bitten by the writing bug, Mark began his professional life as a printworker, an experience which was to serve him well.
    • 2022 October 11, Owen Jones, “From barristers to bin collectors, strikers are working to empower us all”, in The Guardian‎[3], archived from the original on 10 March 2026:
      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 December 28, Anoosh Chakelian, “In my great-great-grandfather’s poetry, I glimpse the Britain I report on today”, in The New Statesman‎[4], archived from the original on 12 December 2025:
      George Ewart Markes Lattimer was my great-great-grandfather, a Victorian printworker, born in 1850 or 1851 […] .

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