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paste-up

American  
[payst-uhp] / ˈpeɪstˌʌp /

noun

Printing.
  1. mechanical.


paste-up British  

noun

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. another name for collage collage

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of paste-up

First recorded in 1925–30; noun use of verb phrase paste up


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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

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

Even shoddy paste-up jobs with duplicated images and other slacker fakes have made their way to print and helped establish researchers’ careers.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2018

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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