paste-up

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He is also credited with overseeing the paper's conversion from manual paste-up of its pages to a more efficient computerized system.

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  1. noun A composition of light flat objects pasted onto a sheet of paper, board, or other backing, as:
  2. noun A layout of an image to be printed, such as a book cover.
  3. noun A collage.

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  • "Milt became one of the most proficient newspaper paste-up men in the industry and was one of the most important members of our 'flying squad' that moved around the country helping other newspapers in our country convert to the new processes," wrote Bob Paulos, who hired Dunn as foreman at the Chronicle, in a letter to Nadine Dunn following Milt's death on Feb. 11, 1994.
  • There are no paste-up sheets, no galleys, no heavy trays of lead type.
  • Perhaps it's the mothballed fur coats wrapped around half the audience, or the French pastry costumes of the prole-ish corps de ballets, who wave their stiff arms in concentric semicircles, heralding the principal dancers with paste-up smiles.
  • Layout and paste-up are obviously all by hand, with no PageMaker or the like involved. —  Austin Metblogs
  • I remember picking bits of copy off my clothing every evening after a day of paste-up. —  Adland
 

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