Printing & publishing

Printing & publishing

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

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basic size

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The standard size of sheets of paper used to calculate basis weight (qv) in the U.S. and Canada, irrespective of the wide variety of commercial sizes produced for different types. ...

opaque paper

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A grade of improved offset paper that allows relatively little light to pass, which prevents show-through (qv) on double-sided printing. See paper.

post office protocol (POP)

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A protocol used by mail clients to download messages from a mail server on the Internet. The older version, POP2, a standard since the mid-1980's, requires SMTP to send messages. ...

ink

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A viscous fluid (originally a compound of carbon black and linseed oil invented in Sixth Century China) used for marking, writing, or printing. Compare dye, toner, strike-through, ...

character count

Printing & publishing; Publishing

As the initial stage in typeset calculations, the number of characters (ie: letters, figures, signs, or spaces) in a line, paragraph, or other piece of copy; also called "unit ...

plate

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Piece of paper, metal, plastic, or rubber carrying an image to be reproduced using a printing press. See digital plate, flat, burn, emulsion, fountain solution, screen, halftone, ...