Publishing

Publishing

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

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Sinkage / sink

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The amount of space left blank at the top of a page, additional to the normal margin, before the first line of type, usually to set apart the chapters or subdivisions of a publication. See attic, ...

Reprography

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The reproduction of documents, drawings, and the like, by any process using light or photography, as xerography, diazo, or offset printing; contraction derived from REPROduction + photoGRAPHY. ...

Ghostwriter

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A person who is paid to write a speech, article, book, or the like, for another person who's presumed to be the author. See hack, byline, plagiarism; compare amanuensis.

Cross head

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A subheading set in the body of the text, used to break the copy into sections that are more easily readable. See subhead, heading.

Scum

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An undesirable film of thick ink in non-image areas; also called blush, catch up, haze, and toning. Scumming may appear on portions of a sheet or across the entire sheet, and results from poor ...

Ink-trap

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Ink printed over a previously printed image. Compare overprint; see illustration.

The amount paid in advance by subscribers for issues not yet served. By law, a publisher owes this amount and must return it if requested or if the magazine ceases publication before all the issues ...