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
In a nearby gallery, one paste-up — “Admit nothing. Blame everyone. Be bitter”— is the foundation for a video piece that changes each word, one at a time, to those with opposing meaning.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021
A second section takes us back 20 years to JR’s first paste-up installations, documenting Les Bosquets, a notorious public housing complex in the Paris suburbs.
From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2021
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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