Printing & publishing

Printing & publishing

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

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make good

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Republication of an advertisement in a periodical at no additional charge, as compensation for an error in the original insertion. See advertising.

grammage

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The ISO basis weight (qv) of paper expressed in grams per square meter (gsm). See paper.

anchor

Printing & publishing; Publishing

To fix a graphical object in desktop publishing so that its position, relative to some other object, remains the same during editing or repagination. Also, a significant literary ...

footer

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A line or lines of text set to display at the bottom of every page in a document or publication, usually for identification; may include graphic lines or automatic page ...

character string

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A sequence of characters manipulated as a group; sometimes a concatenation of terms in a special computer language. Depending on the system, a character string will be set off ...

quad

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An abridgement of quadrat, being a piece of type metal of lower height than the lettered types, serving to cause a blank in printed matter, used for spacing; see slug, leading, ...

tabazine

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Combination of tabloid and magazine for regional or trade distribution, usually arranged in tabloid format. See regional edition, public relations magazine, trade journal, ...