v. [UNDER-1 4 a, 10 a.]
1. trans. To print or stamp from below or on the under side.
1598. Florio, Soppresso,… beaten vnder, drowned, boulged, vnder-printed.
1626. Impeachm. Dk. Buckhm. (Camden), 62. Subscribed per me,… and … sealed with a seale of reade wax, under-printed upon.
2. To print (an engraving or photograph) with insufficient depth or distinctness.
c. 1865. Wylde’s Circ. Sci., 1. 154/1. It is better that the positive should be over, rather than under-printed.
1885. Longm. Mag., VI. 490. A series of book-illustrations that were over-printed in Paris and under-printed in London.
