noun Someone who operates a printing press.
- As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.
— Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret (2000)
- The pressman checked the ink levels before the run began.
noun A journalist or newspaper reporter.
- A crowd of pressmen waited outside the courthouse.
- Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs.
— , Notes and News: By Special Train to Llanfair (1949)
- He hates pressmen, but I am in his confidence, for he knows that I will publish no more than he authorizes.
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed (1929)
