This page gathers the 382 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Printing”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 4 of 4: from “shooting stick” to “woodblock”.
- shooting stick noun A printer's tool to be struck with a mallet for driving quoins.
- shoulder noun The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
- show-through noun The undesirable situation where matter printed on one side of a sheet is visible from the other side.
- sidestick noun A sloped or beveled piece of wood or metal placed against the side of a page that is being typeset, and locked in place by quoins.
- signature noun A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
- skeleton noun A very thin form of light-faced type.
- skip verb To have insufficient ink transfer.
- slice noun A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- slick noun A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive…
- slip noun A portion of the columns of a newspaper, etc., struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
- slip sheet noun A sheet inserted between freshly printed pages to prevent them from sticking together.
- slug out verb To print (something) using slugs (A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine).
- slur verb To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
- small letter noun A character that was once stored in the bottom half of a compositor's typecase.
- small text noun A small size of type, in French and Italian printing, usually conflated with brevier but technically treated as 7½ Didot points.
- solid adj Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
- space line noun A thin piece of metal used to open the lines of type to a regular distance from each other, and for other purposes; a lead.
- space out verb To increase the white space between letters, words or lines.
- space rule noun A fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter.
- spanish verb To subject to spanishing, a printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a plastic…
- spanishing noun A printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a material, usually plastic
- spirit master noun A two-ply sheet used in a spirit duplicator, in which the top sheet could be typed, drawn, or written upon, and the second sheet was coated…
- spot color noun In offset printing, any color generated by an ink, pure or mixed, that is printed using a single run.
- spot UV noun A printing technique in which a clear, shiny coating (ultraviolet varnish) is applied to areas of a printed material.
- squabble verb To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.
- square noun A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in…
- squeegee noun A tool with a roller or blade used to force ink through a stencil in silk-screen printing.
- stack verb To have excessive ink transfer.
- star noun An asterisk (*) or comparable symbol (e.g., ★, ☆, ✶, ✦, ✧, ✷, ✪, ⭐) inspired by a celestial star.
- steel adj Engraved on steel.
- stereo noun A stereotype.
- stereotype verb To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
- stereotypography noun The act or technique of printing from stereotype plates.
- stereotypy noun The process of making stereotype plates and printing from them.
- stick verb To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
- stickful noun As much type as fills a composing stick.
- stone noun A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before…
- stone editor noun An editor who works with the compositor at the imposing stone to determine how material will be laid out on the page.
- strike noun An imperfect matrix for type.
- style noun A set of rules regarding the presentation of text (spelling, typography, the citation of references, etc.) and illustrations that is…
- superior noun A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
- tablework noun Typesetting of tabular matter.
- tabloid noun A paper size 11 × 17 inches (279 × 432 millimetres) in dimensions.
- tailpiece noun An ornamental design at the end of a chapter or page.
- take noun The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- takeoff noun The removal of sheets from the press.
- tape noun A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
- text noun A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
- thirty-twomo noun A paper size, (3.75"-5" x 2.5"-3.125"), one thirty-second of an uncut free sheet.
- throw up verb To give special prominence to a line or lines.
- throwout noun A folded sheet that opens out to one side; half a gatefold.
- token noun Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on…
- trigesimo-secundo noun A book size, (3.75"–5" × 2.5"–3.125"), corresponding to the paper size.
- trim noun Any of the three cut edges of book pages, trimmed with a shear after binding.
- turn noun A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.
- turnover noun Synonym of runover.
- turtle noun The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
- twelvemo noun a page, book etc. of that size
- twenty-fours noun A form of composed type or plates containing 24 leaves or 48 pages, properly arranged for printing and folding.
- tympan noun A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
- type noun Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
- typecast verb To found type in a mold.
- typeface noun The surface of type which inked, or the impression it makes.
- typeholder noun A container for type.
- typograph noun A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.
- typometry noun Printing maps or drawings with moveable type.
- underlay noun A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
- underprint adj The addition of colour under black areas to produce a deeper black and prevent oversaturation of the paper.
- union bug noun A maker’s mark imprinted on a work to show that it is sanctioned by members of a trade union. It is often a tiny elongated rhomboid…
- unlead verb To take out the leads from (printed matter that has been set up).
- upmaking noun The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.
- varitype noun A kind of advanced typewriter that could use various different typefaces.
- verso noun The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an even page number.
- vicesimo-quarto noun A book size, (2.5"–3.3" x 5"–6.25"), corresponding to the paper size.
- vignette noun A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a…
- waver noun In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
- web noun A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
- webbing noun Tapes conducting webs of paper in a printing machine.
- whiskering noun A defect of gravure printing characterized by printed areas possessing hairlike tendrils of ink sticking out into non-image areas.
- white out verb To space out a composition for printing.
- with privilege adv used to indicate a book has been legally published or is entitled to special privileges, e.g., due to a royal monopoly
- woodblock noun A wooden block used as a printing form.