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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It depicts Captain America and the Howling Commandos, an elite group of soldiers in the Marvel universe, and required some paste-up corrections, which are now slipping off.
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2019
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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