Printing & publishing

Printing & publishing

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

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drop out

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Halftone dots or fine lines absent or eliminated from highlights by overexposure during camera work, as the lost copy "dropped out". Compare knockout, cutout, reverse; see band, ...

target

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Synonymous with destination, being any file location, database, application mode, storage medium, or hardware device to which processing is directed or output; see object code. ...

selective binding

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The practice of placing signatures or inserts into magazines or catalogs according to demographic or geographic guidelines. With the development of online publications, the user ...

dandy roll

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Wire-mesh drum on a papermaking machine that presses watermarks and surface patterns into paper while it is still saturated; derived from fine or excellent. See paper coating.

shoulder note

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A note written or printed in the outer corner of the head margin of a page, usually in writing or type that distinguishes it from the text. See gloss, marginalia, reference marks, ...

active server page (ASP)

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A specification (*.ASP) for a dynamically created webpage that utilizes ActiveX scripting (usually VBscript or Jscript code). When a browser requests an ASP page, the web server ...