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  • adjective printing Before going to press.

Etymologies

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pre- +‎ press

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Examples

  • The Bay of Plenty company has partnered with Hong Kong's Compose Systems (best known as a prepress production house for publishers) to create both simplified and traditional Chinese character versions of its search engine, which it bills as "taking the browsing out of browsing"

    National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand ris Keall 2010

  • The Bay of Plenty company has partnered with Hong Kong's Compose Systems (best known as a prepress production house for publishers) to create both simplified and traditional Chinese character versions of its search engine, which it bills as "taking the browsing out of browsing"

    National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand ris Keall 2010

  • In his prepress conference meeting, Eisenhower said that he could not continue to publicly ignore the “seriousness of the situation.”

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • Nilsen: Yeah, prepress-wise those pages are somewhat more complicated to make happen.

    Talking Comics with Tim: Anders Nilsen | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • In his prepress conference meeting, Eisenhower said that he could not continue to publicly ignore the “seriousness of the situation.”

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • Mr. Shields, 54, lives in Bellevue, Wash., and was laid off as a prepress technician by AllpakTrojan in February 2009.

    Getting 'Rusty' as Search Drags On Conor Dougherty 2011

  • You have just entered the prepress stage of production.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » How a book is made 2009

  • Mr. Shields, who lives in Bellevue, Wash., was laid off as a prepress technician by printer AllpakTrojan in February 2009.

    Faces 2010

  • The clue: Some of the contraband pages have prepress design symbols and a notation that dates the files to 10 days before Wizards announced they had sent the final product off to the printer.

    Dungeon Contraband « Isegoria 2008

  • The clue: Some of the contraband pages have prepress design symbols and a notation that dates the files to 10 days before Wizards announced they had sent the final product off to the printer.

    May « 2008 « Isegoria 2008

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