painettuja

Painettuja is a Finnish word, the partitive plural form of the past participle painettu (from the verb painaa, "to print" or "to press"), used to refer to printed items or objects that have been printed. As an attributive or nominal form it appears in phrases such as painettuja kirjoja ("printed books"), painettuja aineistoja ("printed materials") or painettuja tekstiilejä ("printed textiles"), and can be used alone to mean "printed ones" in contexts where the noun is understood.

The term spans multiple fields: in publishing and librarianship it denotes physical printed matter (books, periodicals, posters), in graphic arts and manufacturing it describes products created by processes like letterpress, offset, digital printing or screen printing, and in philately it may describe printed stamps. In legal and administrative contexts painettuja can be used to distinguish physical printed documents from electronic or manuscript formats.

Historically, printed materials have been central to information dissemination and culture; contemporary practice balances print and digital media. Preservation concerns—paper degradation, binding conservation and archival storage—remain important for institutions that hold painettuja aineistoja. The word thus encapsulates both a grammatical form in Finnish and a broad category of physical cultural artifacts produced by printing.