How to say "reprint" in Japanese

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  • 再版さいはんCommon
    noun, suru verb, transitive verbReprinting a book so it comes out again, often as a new edition — hence the 'second edition' sense. Fits a publisher bringing a title out afresh rather than merely running extra copies.
  • 重版じゅうはんCommon
    noun, suru verb, transitive verbAn additional printing: putting a book back through the press for more copies, typically because demand has outstripped supply. Also covers a reissue; familiar from publishing news about titles going back to print.
    新聞しんぶんに「重版じゅうはん出来でき」と広告こうこくした。↗
    It was advertised as a second edition in the newspapers.
  • 増刷ぞうさつCommon
    noun, suru verb, transitive verbAn additional print run: printing more copies of a book already published. In this sense it overlaps heavily with 重版, the nuance being an increase in the number of copies.
  • 復刻版ふっこくばんCommon
    nounA facsimile edition: an older work reproduced faithfully in its original form — the edition itself, not the act of running extra copies. The natural choice when a classic or out-of-print title is reissued as-is.

Choose 再版 for bringing a book out again, often as a new edition; 重版 or 増刷 for an additional print run of the same edition; and 復刻版 for a facsimile reprint of an older, out-of-print work.

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