paste-up
Americannoun
noun
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an assembly of typeset matter, illustrations, etc, pasted on a sheet of paper or board and used as a guide or layout in the production of a publication
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a sheet of paper or board on which are pasted artwork, typeset matter, etc, for photographing prior to making a printing plate another name for camera-ready copy
Etymology
Origin of paste-up
First recorded in 1925–30; noun use of verb phrase paste up
Example Sentences
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And sometimes, after the editors had finalized a story, Mr. Hedges recalled he and Mr. Seper would stroll back to the paste-up room where the typesetters were laying out the pages by hand.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
And that underscores the complexity of revisiting Kruger at this moment in image dissemination: Her strict-rule paste-up approach to interrogating groupthink has become so defining, so signature that her innovations are now core grammar.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
Around that same time, he also took a job as a paste-up artist at the Lovable Underwear Co.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2019
Guys at the layout tables, waxing text onto paste-up boards.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2019
There were no dummy runs; in fact, on the night before the first edition, I was forced to call one Herald's former paste-up artists to come in and help produce the paper.
From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various
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