[Grammar] the name and address ... as it is printed on their official writing paper

[kadioguy]

letterhead
​NOUN

the name and address of an organization as it is printed on their official writing paper

https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/letterhead
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Does "as" here mean "when"?

Or should we read the definition this way?

the name and address of an organization (as it is) printed on their official writing paper

What do you think?

 

[kadioguy]

the name and address of an organization in the way that it is printed on their official writing paper, i.e., with that font and layout.

I made two improvements.

 

[Tarheel]

Kadioguy, it's called a letterhead. It is the way all of a business's official correspondence is printed (at the top of a letter. These days most correspondence is conducted by email, but some things are too important for that.

 

[kadioguy]

Kadioguy, it's called a letterhead. It is the way all of business's official correspondence is printed (at the top of a letter. These days most correspondence is conducted by email, but some things are too important for thatm

Thank you, Tarheel.

Did you mean to say something like this?

These days most correspondence is conducted by email, but some things are too important for people. So they still use a letterhead in those cases.

 

[Tarheel]

Sorry. I have a clumsy thumb. Typo fixed!

I did not, of course, mean that some things are too important for people. (I suppose that's something one android might say to another. ;-) )

 

[kadioguy]

it's called a letterhead. It is the way all of a business's official correspondence is printed (at the top of a letter). These days most correspondence is conducted by email, but some things are too important for that.

Does the blue part mean that some things are so important that we should use a letterhead when sending a letter?

 

[emsr2d2]

Some things are too important to be sent by email. A formal written letter is deemed more appropriate.