printworker

plural printworkers · alternative print-worker · alternative print worker

1. A person who works in the printing industry, particularly as an employee at a printing house or printworks.

   George Ewart Markes Lattimer was my great-great-grandfather, a Victorian printworker, born in 1850 or 1851 […].

   2022 December 28, Anoosh Chakelian, “In my great-great-grandfather’s poetry, I glimpse the Britain I report on today”, in The New Statesman, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2025

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   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.

   1999 May 28, Mark Andrew Stuart, Skill Formation and Restructuring within the UK Printing Industry, Leeds University Business School, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2025

   Long before being bitten by the writing bug, Mark began his professional life as a printworker, an experience which was to serve him well.

   2012 August 31, Jason Holmes, “Mark Baxter: Backing A Winner”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2023

   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 October 11, Owen Jones, “From barristers to bin collectors, strikers are working to empower us all”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2026