Printing & publishing

Printing & publishing

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

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form / forme

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An assemblage of printing types, leads, and the like, secured in a chase to be printed from; classed as live (ready for press; typeset and proofed), dead (printed; awaiting melt ...

hieroglyphics

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Designating a symbolic language, in which many of the signs are conventionalized pictures of the things represented; also known as hieroglyphs. Also, characters that are difficult ...

perfect press

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Sheet-fed or web press capable of printing both sides of the paper during a single pass; also called "duplex press" and "perfector", as invented by Friedrich Koenig / Konig. See ...

advertising linage

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The number of advertising pages carried by a magazine in any given period, usually includes a perspective on advertising space compared to editorial content, expressed as a ratio ...

let it stand (STET)

Printing & publishing; Publishing

To retain material previously deleted; see proofreader's marks.

deprecated tag

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A markup tag rendered obsolete by technological advances or programming changes. Deprecated tags, such as and , are no longer developed or supported; but older documents may ...

pamphlet

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A short treatise or disquisition, often on a contemporary or controversial subject, published informally, variously sized and illustrated, and bound by staples or stitching. See ...