Machined

Printing firms around the world are generally willing to pay perhaps a 20-percent premium to buy a printing press from Germany, because the German presses are very solidly built and are machined to exacting tolerances.

For optimal strength, this part is made from billet aluminum, machined into shape by a CNC mill.

I don’t believe Lindsay senses the satiric undercurrents beneath the machined ripples of Ballard’s prose.