Publishing

Publishing

Publishing is the process of producing literature, music or information and making it available to the general public.

Industry: Printing & publishing

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Scriptorium

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A cloistered room, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied; derived from "writing + place". See carrel, book press, bookstand, kiosk, script, incunabula, codex, volume, scroll, protocol, spine.

Fulfilment house

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A company that handles the entire ordering process for books, such as storing, packing, mailing, maintaining records, and other business related operations for the author or publisher.

A copying process in which areas on a sheet of paper, corresponding to those on the original, are sensitised by static electricity, and then sprinkled with black or coloured resin that adheres and is ...

Graffitist

Printing & publishing; Publishing

One who marks public surfaces with writings or drawings, as artistic expression, as political protest, as vandalistic defacement, or as antagonistic desecration; also called "tagger", "street ...

Printer control language (PCL)

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The control language for HP LaserJet printers, and supported by many other printers and typesetting machines. PCL tells the printer how to print a page, as does a Page Description Language. See ...

Switch

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The syntactic parameters used in an argument for controlling the execution of a command or an application, which are typically punctuated with a forward-slash (/), to distinguish qualified ...

Muckraker

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A person, often a journalist or "investigative reporter", who searches for and exposes allegations of corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics. The term, for those who expose ...