What is the meaning of printing?

noun

• Text handwritten in the style of printed matter.
• The business of producing printed material for sale or distribution.
• Reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication.
  • synonyms: printing process
• All the copies of a work printed at one time.
  • usage: "they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies"
  • synonyms: impression

verb

• Put into print.
  • usage: "The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce"; "These news should not be printed"
  • synonyms: print, publish
• Write as if with print; not cursive.
  • synonyms: print
• Make into a print.
  • usage: "print the negative"
  • synonyms: print
• Reproduce by printing.
  • synonyms: print, impress