printshop

See also: print shop

English

Alternative forms

• print shop, print-shop

Etymology

From print +‎ shop.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɪnt.ʃɒp/

Noun

printshop (plural printshops)

1. A shop that sells prints.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.

2. (chiefly Canada, US) A shop providing commercial copying and printing services.
3. (uncommon) Synonym of printing house, an institutional or commercial mass publisher.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 263:

     As we have seen, government regulated the number of printshops throughout the realm [...] and enforced censorship throughout the land.

Synonyms

• (shop that sells prints): printseller, printseller's
• (shop that makes prints to order): copy shop