printer's ink

Noun

Meaning

a semisolid quick drying ink made especially for use in printing

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The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win. Christopher Morley

My children were all made from paper and printer's ink. Cornelia Funke

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink. Albert Camus

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Christopher Morley

Great deeds and utterances are now so diluted with printer's ink that we can no longer find a sage or saint. Our worthiest men are exhibited and bewritten until they are made as uninteresting as clowns. John Lancaster Spalding

Different formulations are used for printer's ink, so there can be variations in the printed color that is pure yellow ink. Source: Internet

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