printing house

From the expansive sense of house to refer to any building, particularly those like shops or workshops where people work together for a common purpose. Originally used in reference to printing workshops supplying or included within a bookshop; later used more expansively to refer to any institution or company involved in printing.

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printing house (plural printing houses)

1. An institution or commercial company chiefly devoted to printing.
2. The building where printing occurs.
3. (now uncommon) Synonym of printshop: a place to make personal copies.

• (printing company): publisher, publishing house, printshop, printing shop; press, printing press (metonyms); imprimery (archaic)
• (building for printing): printworks

• (printing company): See printer (inclusive of self-run printing houses)

• (printing company): imprint (subsidiary printing house)