Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Letterpress \Let"ter*press`\ (-t[~e]r*pr[e^]s`), n.
   Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material
   by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction
   from the illustrations.

         Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in
         distinction from printing from plates.

Source : WordNet®

letterpress
     n : printing from a plate with raised characters [syn: {relief
         printing}]