1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / D / Dwell. [p. 36]
The stationary period while a sheet is being impressed on the type or forme—a long “dwell” is a good point in a machine.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.