Sentence examples for initial printings from inspiring English sources

Scholastic planned initial printings totaling 8.5 million copies, or more than twice as many as the record initial printing of Ms. Rowling's previous novel, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," published three years ago.

It was a risky operation, involving speculatively high initial printings to keep down the unit cost.

According to Penguin, all the books have gone through multiple printings, while average initial printings have almost doubled, to about 25,000 copies for "Joan of Arc" by Mary Gordon and "Woodrow Wilson" by Louis Auchincloss, the latest in the series.

With initial printings of novelists' first books running as low as 2,000 copies, Mr. Sigler has a substantial audience, enough finally to attract a small Canadian publisher, Dragon Moon Press, which published "EarthCore" in 2005 and will release "Ancestor" on April 1.

Although the novel went through two initial printings, some of these copies remained unsold years later.

And don't forget about spacing or justifying type in the center of a page or column; this required flat (non-printing) metal spacers, a good eye, and sometimes adjustment of the spacers after an initial proof print was made.

Doubleday has 35,000 copies in print after two printings, said Todd Doughty, a spokesman for the publisher.

These refreshed prints he resold as original printings.

The subsequent issues that made up the series' initial six-issue story arc also garnered similarly positive reviews, with three printings ordered for issue #2, and second printings ordered for issues 3 - 6.

It's clearly an excellent way to take up the slack in the 3D-printing world, especially considering the price of the initial investment in Makerbots and other devices.

It went through several printings.