Publishing

Publishing

Publishing is the process of producing literature, music or information and making it available to the general public.

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work and turn / work 'n' turn

Printing & publishing; Publishing

To print a sheet on both front and back so that the same combination of images is printed using the same set of plates by employing the same gripper edges (qv). Compare perfecting, sheetwise.

skid

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A low mobile platform for ease of handling goods. See pallet.

A sheet, plate, or other material bearing a pierced design or cut-out pattern, as used to transfer or reproduce by paint or ink to another surface; derived from a metathetic conversion of ornamental ...

substance weight

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An alternate term for basis weight, usually referring to bond paper; also called "sub wt". See paper.

copyedit

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Copyediting is a blanket term that describes several different levels of textual editing that happen before the text is typeset: mechanical, style, and substantive. Substantive editing, or major ...

transpose (TR)

Printing & publishing; Publishing

See proofreader's marks.

quotation marks

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The marks (") placed at the beginning and end of cited phrases or passages to indicate attribution other than the author, to identify dialogue in print, and to denote selected words or phrases for ...