Printing & publishing

Printing & publishing

The industry concerned with the preparation and distribution of printed material to the general public.

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screen tint

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Color created by dots instead of solid ink coverage; also called "fill pattern", "shading", "tint", and "tone". Compare watermark; see screen ruling, illustration.

color balance

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Refers to amounts of process colors that simulate the colors of the original scene or photograph. See illustration.

commercial register

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The informal trade policy recognizing that acceptable quality allows a slight variation of register throughout the press run.

debug

Printing & publishing; Publishing

To detect defects and errors in computer software, and remedy them; also called "bugfix". See bug, glitch, crash, patch, kludge, beta test, tweak, GIGO, RTDM, FAQ, help.

superscript

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A letter, number, or symbol written above or printed high on a line of text; also called "superior". Compare subscript.

virus

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A segment of self-replicating code that's been illegally planted into a computer program, most often to damage a system, to corrupt a database, or to shut down a network. ...