Printing & publishing

Printing & publishing

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

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newspaper

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A daily or weekly publication containing current news, features, commentary, scheduled events, and advertising. A person spends an average of thirty-minutes each day reading the ...

sound-bite / sound bite

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A brief but striking remark or statement excerpted from one source for insertion into another source, especially a comment extracted from an interview and broadcast in a news ...

serial line internet protocol (SLIP)

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A communication standard that allows a computer to be directly connected to the Internet using a graphical user interface (GUI). By a dial-up connection (such as telephone ...

type

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A clay, wood, or metal block with a raised character on its surface that, when fixed into a press and coated with ink, prints an impression of the character on paper or some ...

block print

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal; also known as "woodcut" or "woodblock", but formally called xylography. Relief printing originated in Third ...

fillet

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A decorative line impressed onto a book cover, usually at the top and bottom of the back cover. See tool line, rule; compare reglet.

raster font

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A bitmapped font. A font in which each character is formed from pixels arranged to make the shape of the character. Such an arrangement of pixels is called a bitmap, and loses ...