Printing & publishing

Printing & publishing

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

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duplex

Printing & publishing; Publishing

To print on both sides of a sheet from a dedicated peripheral or a networked device, as in the remote queuing of corporate or institutional documents; compare perfect, simplex, ...

formula

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A magazine's editorial makeup, specifying types of content and regular departments; also known as "unity" for consistency of make-up. See format, stylesheet, master page, ...

bite

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A short excerpt, fragment, clip, or bit; as a visual bite from film, or word bites from poems. Compare sound-bite; see ear, snippet, blurb, squib, filler, paragraph, call-out, ...

photogenic

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An appealing subject or attractive feature for photography; see mediagenic. Also, causing, producing, or emitting light, as luminiferous or phosphorescent.

afflatus

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Creative inspiration or artistic revelation; derived from "emit", as to be breathed upon by divine communication. The slang expression for this sudden insight is "brain fart". See ...

diacritic / diacritical mark

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A mark, point, or sign, such as a cedilla, tilde, circumflex, breve, dieresis/diaeresis (umlaut), macron, ogonek, hacek / caron, eth / edh, or thorn, added or attached to a letter ...

sound-clip / sound clip

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A short segment or brief excerpt of speech or music introduced into electronic media as a primary, complementary, or supplementary component, also called "audio-clip"; including ...