Issue vs. Print — What's the Difference?
By Maham Liaqat & Fiza Rafique — Updated on April 18, 2024
Issue typically refers to a point or matter of debate or a release of a publication, whereas print implies the process of producing text and images on paper, often through printing presses.
Difference Between Issue and Print
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Key Differences
Issue often describes the act of distributing something, like a magazine or stamps, or it can mean a problem or concern that needs addressing. On the other hand, print specifically refers to the process of creating books, magazines, newspapers, and other documents by transferring ink onto paper or other media. Issues of a publication may be disseminated in print form, while print itself does not suggest a problem or debate but a method of production.
Issues can be released periodically as in the case of journals or magazines, each instance being a new "issue." Whereas print is a static method of production that results in physical copies of texts or images. Therefore, while each magazine issue is a new edition, each print is a single instance of one edition.
In terms of problem-solving, issue is used to denote a complication or difficulty that requires resolution, such as "issue in the workplace." Print, in contrast, might involve technical problems related to the physical printing process, but does not inherently imply a debatable problem.
From a publishing perspective, when someone subscribes to a magazine, they receive new issues over time, reflecting ongoing content creation. Print, however, encompasses a broader array of outputs, including brochures, posters, and packaging, which are not typically released as issues.
Issue also has legal and familial connotations, referring to subjects such as "legal issues" or one's descendants ("issue"). Print has no such meanings; it strictly relates to the format or process of reproducing text and images.
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Comparison Chart
Definition
Release of publication or problem
Process or result of printing texts or images
Periodicity
Can be periodic (e.g., magazines)
Non-periodic
Connotation
Can imply a problem
Primarily technical, no inherent problems
Publishing
Refers to editions of publications
Involves various materials (e.g., books, flyers)
Other meanings
Legal or familial contexts
Strictly related to production techniques
Compare with Definitions
Issue
In law, the point in dispute in a discussion.
The main issue in the trial was the validity of the contract.
A mark or impression made on a surface.
The artist's prints are displayed in the gallery.
Issue
A specific edition of a publication.
The latest issue of the magazine features an exclusive interview.
To write in letters suitable for printing.
Always print your name clearly on the form.
Issue
A problem or matter that needs to be resolved.
We need to address the parking issue at work.
To produce text and images on paper.
We will print 500 copies of the brochure.
Issue
Offspring or descendants.
He left his estate to his issue.
Physical copies of written or graphic material.
The book's first print sold out quickly.
Issue
The act of supplying or distributing something.
The library will issue new cards to members.
The business or industry of publishing printed material.
She works in print media.
Issue
A point or matter of discussion, debate, or dispute
What legal and moral issues should we consider?.
Produce (books, newspapers, etc.), especially in large quantities, by a mechanical process involving the transfer of text or designs to paper
A thousand copies of the book were printed
Issue
A matter of public concern
Debated economic issues.
Write (text) clearly without joining the letters together
Print your name and address on the back of the cheque
Issue
A misgiving, objection, or complaint
Had issues with the plan to change the curriculum.
Mark (a surface, typically a fabric or garment) with a coloured design or pattern
A delicate fabric printed with roses
Issue
A problem or difficulty.
The text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication, especially with reference to its size, form, or style
Bold print
She forced herself to concentrate on the tiny print
Issue
A personal problem
Is convinced that her boss has issues.
An indentation or mark made on a surface or soft substance
There were paw prints everywhere
Issue
The act of circulating, distributing, or publishing by a business, government, or organization
Government issue of new bonds.
A picture or design printed from a block or plate or copied from a painting by photography
The walls were hung with sporting prints
Issue
An item or set of items, as stamps or coins, made available at one time by a business, government, or organization.
A piece of fabric or clothing with a coloured pattern or design printed on it
Light summer prints
A floral print dress
Issue
A single copy of a periodical
The May issue of the magazine.
A mark or impression made in or on a surface by pressure
The print of footsteps in the sand.
Issue
A distinct set of copies of an edition of a book distinguished from others of that edition by variations in the printed matter.
A fingerprint.
Issue
Proceeds from estates or fines.
A device or implement, such as a stamp, die, or seal, used to press markings onto or into a surface
Fancy letters made by hand-carved prints.
Issue
Something proceeding from a specified source
Suspicions that were the issue of a deranged mind.
Something formed or marked by such a device.
Issue
A culminating point leading to a decision
Bring a case to an issue.
Text, lettering, or other marks produced in ink from type as by a printing press or from digital fonts by an electronic printer
Needed glasses to read the print.
Issue
A final result or conclusion, as a solution to a problem.
Printed state or form
A short story that never got into print.
Issue
The act or an instance of flowing, passing, or giving out
Where the lake gives issue to its waters.
A printed publication or edition of a text; a printing
The first print of that book has sold out.
Issue
A place of egress; an outlet
A lake with no issue to the sea.
A design or picture transferred from an engraved plate, wood block, lithographic stone, or other medium
Had prints of flowers hanging on the walls.
Issue
A discharge, as of blood or pus.
A photographic image transferred to paper or a similar surface.
Issue
A lesion, wound, or ulcer producing such a discharge.
A copy of a movie made on film or in a high resolution digital format, as for public exhibition.
Issue
Offspring; progeny
Died without issue.
A fabric or garment with a dyed pattern that has been pressed onto it, usually by engraved rollers.
Issue
To flow, go, or come out
Water issuing from a spring.
Voices issuing from a room.
The pattern itself
A blouse with a paisley print.
Issue
To proceed from a source; emerge or come forth
Ideas issuing from a discussion. ].
To press (a mark or design, for example) onto or into a surface
Tracks that were printed in the snow.
Issue
The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:
To make an impression on or in (a surface) with a device such as a stamp, seal, or die.
Issue
A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
To press (something, such as a stamp) onto or into a surface to leave a marking.
Issue
The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly in abnormal amounts.
The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.
To produce by means of pressed type, an electronic printer, or similar means, on a paper surface
Printed more copies of the ad.
Issue
Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:
To offer in printed form; publish
The publisher collected the essays and printed them as a book.
Issue
The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
To reproduce (a digital document or image) on a paper surface
Printed the email.
Issue
Offspring: one's natural child or children.
He died lawyered up.
To convert (a digital document) into a file format designed for publication.
Issue
Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.
To write (something) in characters similar to those commonly used in print.
Issue
A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
To impress firmly in the mind or memory
An experience that will be printed in our hearts forever.
Issue
The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents, and profits.
To produce a photographic image from (a negative, for example) by passing light through film onto a photosensitive surface, especially sensitized paper.
Issue
Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
To produce (an electronic component) by mechanically transferring a circuit or circuit pattern onto a nonconductive surface.
Issue
The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
To fabricate (an object) by means of a 3D printer.
Issue
Any action or deed performed by a person.
To work as a printer.
Issue
Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
To produce something in printed form by means of a printing press or other reproduction process.
Issue
A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.
To write characters similar to those commonly used in print.
Issue
The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.
To produce or receive an impression, marking, or image
The negative printed poorly.
Issue
The entire set of something; all of something.
The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.
Published or reproduced by printing, especially in contrast to electronic publication
A print newsletter.
Issue
(finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.
The company's issues have included securities.
Relating to or involved in media based on printing, especially newspapers and magazines
A print journalist.
Issue
The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
A print edition of a book
Issue
The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
(transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off.
Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
Issue
A sewer.
To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
Issue
The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:
(ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
Print your name here and sign below.
I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print.
Issue
An exit from a room or building.
(ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
Issue
A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.
(transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
To print calico
Issue
The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.
(transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
Issue
A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
(transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
Issue
The production or distribution of something for general use.
Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.
To display a string on the terminal.
Issue
The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
The uniform was standard prison issue.
To produce an observable value.
On March 16, 2020, the S&P printed at 2,386.13, one of the worst drops in history.
Issue
(finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.
(transitive) To fingerprint (a person).
Issue
Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
Please stand by. We are having technical issues.
(uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
Write in print using block letters.
Issue
A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.
(uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
The print is too small for me to read.
Issue
Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.
(countable) A newspaper.
Issue
A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma.
A visible impression on a surface.
Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
Issue
A psychological or emotional difficulty, any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... I'm just sayin', girl's got issues.
A fingerprint.
Did the police find any prints at the scene?
Issue
The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:
A footprint.
Issue
The end of any action or process.
(visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
Issue
The end of any period of time.
(photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
Issue
The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:
(film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
Issue
The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
Issue
The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
(architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.
Issue
The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode,That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.
Issue
The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.
Issue
To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
The water issued forth from the spring.
The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.
To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.
Issue
To rush out, to sally forth.
The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface.
Issue
To extend into, to open onto.
The road issues into the highway.
To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.
Issue
To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
To publish a book or an article.
From the moment he prints, he must except to hear no more truth.
Issue
(archaic) To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.
A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow.
Where print of human feet was never seen.
Issue
(legal) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.
Issue
To send out; to put into circulation.
The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.
That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.
Issue
To deliver for use.
The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.
Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.
Issue
To deliver by authority.
The court issued a writ of mandamus.
That which is produced by printing.
Issue
The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.
A core print. See under Core.
Issue
The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.
The result of the printing process;
I want to see it in black and white
Issue
That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.
A picture or design printed from an engraving
Issue
Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
If the kingShould without issue die.
A visible indication made on a surface;
Some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks
Paw prints were everywhere
Issue
Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits.
A copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)
Issue
A discharge of flux, as of blood.
A fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers)
Issue
An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.
A printed picture produced from a photographic negative
Issue
The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
Come forth to viewThe issue of the exploit.
While it is hot, I 'll put it to the issue.
Put into print;
The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce
These news should not be printed
Issue
A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide; a point of contention; a matter in controversy.
Write as if with print; not cursive
Issue
In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned.
As much at issue with the summer dayAs if you brought a candle out of doors.
Make into a print;
Print the negative
Issue
To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.
From it issued forced drops of blood.
Reproduce by printing
Issue
To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.
Issue
To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.
Issue
To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
Of thy sons that shall issue from thee.
Issue
To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.
Issue
To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.
Issue
To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.
Issue
In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.
Issue
To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
Issue
To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.
Issue
To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
Issue
An important question that is in dispute and must be settled;
The issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone
Politicians never discuss the real issues
Issue
One of a series published periodically;
She found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waitingroom
Issue
The provision of something by issuing it (usually in quantity);
A new issue of stamps
The last issue of penicillin was over a month ago
Issue
Some situation or event that is thought about;
He kept drifting off the topic
He had been thinking about the subject for several years
It is a matter for the police
Issue
Supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government
Issue
The immediate descendants of a person;
She was the mother of many offspring
He died without issue
Issue
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon;
The magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise
His decision had depressing consequences for business
He acted very wise after the event
Issue
The income arising from land or other property;
The average return was about 5%
Issue
The becoming visible;
Not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins
Issue
An opening that permits escape or release;
He blocked the way out
The canyon had only one issue
Issue
The act of issuing printed materials
Issue
Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale;
Publish a magazine or newspaper
Issue
Circulate or distribute or equip with;
Issue a new uniform to the children
Supply blankets for the beds
Issue
Bring out an official document (such as a warrant)
Issue
Come out of;
Water issued from the hole in the wall
The words seemed to come out by themselves
Issue
Make out and issue;
Write out a check
Cut a ticket
Please make the check out to me
Common Curiosities
What is an "issue" in publishing?
An issue refers to one edition of a periodic publication like a magazine or journal.
Is digital printing considered "print"?
Yes, digital printing is a modern method within the broader category of print.
Can the term "print" apply to digital outputs?
Typically, print refers to physical outputs, but the techniques can be applied in digital form settings as previews.
How often are issues released for typical magazines?
It varies but often monthly or weekly.
What role does print play in advertising?
Print is crucial for producing tangible advertising materials like flyers, posters, and billboards.
What does "print" mean in the context of media?
Print refers to the production of text and images on paper, typically through mechanical processes like printing presses.
How can "issue" be used in a legal context?
In legal terms, issue refers to a point or matter in dispute during a trial or discussion.
Can "issue" refer to something other than publications?
Yes, issue can also refer to a problem needing resolution or legal and familial contexts.
What does it mean to resolve an issue?
It means to find a solution to a problem or dispute.
What is the relationship between issue and volume in publications?
A volume may contain several issues within a specific time frame, usually a year.
What are some common printing techniques?
Common techniques include offset printing, screen printing, and digital printing.
What is a "print run"?
A print run is the number of copies printed in one production batch.
Are all prints made from paper?
No, prints can also be made on other materials like fabric and metal.
How does print media differ from electronic media?
Print media involves physical copies like newspapers and magazines, while electronic media includes digital forms like websites and e-books.
Can "issue" refer to shares issued by a company?
Yes, in financial terms, it can refer to the number of shares a company makes available for sale.
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