Printing - Indian Laws - General

Printing Words and Phrases , permanent edition, volume 33, states that printing is a process of multiplying the copies of a composition by sheets. As defined in Bouvier s Law Dictionary , Printing is the art of impressing letters, the art of making books or papers by impressing legal characters . Printing means the impress of letters or characters upon paper, or up on other substance, and implies a mechanical act Print is a word of wide signification, but, in its ordinary sense, means to impress letters, figures and characters by types and ink of various forms and colors on paper of various kinds or on some such yielding surface. According to Webster defines to print .. (2) to take an impression of : to copy or take off the impress of; to stamp. (3) Hence, specifically to strike off an impression of or impressions of form types, stereo-types, or engraved plates, or the like, by means of a press; or to print books, handbills, newspapers, and the like. (4) To mark off by pressure, to form an impression upon, to cover with figures by a press or something analogous to it; as to print calico, etc. Print, noun : A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure or indentation made by the pressure of one body or thing upon another. (5) A printed cloth, a fabric, figures by stamping. Encyclopaedia Britannica , concerning printing states as follows : Printing traditionally has been defined as a technique for applying under pressure a certain quantity of colouring agent onto a specified surface to form a body of text or an illustration . The invention of printing at the dawn of the age of the great discoveries was in part a response and in part a stimulus to the movement that, by transforming the economic, social and ideological relations of civilization, would usher in the modern world . SELVARAJAN COMPANY VERSUS REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES - 1986 (7) TMI 331 - HIGH COURT OF MADRAS