Paste up
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paste-up-310-3755665
title:
Paste up
text:
Paste up is a method of creating or laying out publication pages that predates the use of the now-standard computerized page design desktop publishing programs. Completed, or camera-ready, pages are known as mechanicals or mechanical art. In the offset lithography process, the mechanicals would be photographed with a stat camera to create a same-size film negative for each printing plate required. Paste up relied on phototypesetting, a process that would generate "cold type" on photographic pape
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Method of preparing copy for photographing to make a printing plate
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paste_up
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date modified:
2024-04-14T21:46:19Z
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