paste-up

American  

[peyst-uhp] / ˈpeɪstˌʌp /

noun

Printing.

1. mechanical.

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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

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Etymology

Origin of paste-up

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

Example Sentences

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

These paste-up arrangements aren’t the most elegant works in this exhibition, but they are maybe the most telling.

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

The company which had sold the Chowgules the desk-top publishing equipment for the new newspaper had amazingly been able to convince the management that there was no need for paste-up artists.

From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various

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