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paste-up

paste-up

1 7.6
A page design made by sticking text and pictures onto a board for printing
  • noun
  • /ˈpeɪstˌʌp/
  • Archaic
translation icon : maquetación
  • Before the deadline, the team had to finalize the paste-up layout to ensure everything was ready for printing.

Examples

  • After spending years in traditional typesetting and paste-up, I bought a Mac in 1992 and taught myself desktop publishing and multimedia with Macromind Director (yes, Macromind).

    Blog text (20)
  • He told her to give the editor his name, and after a great deal of convincing, she agreed to do so, but when she came back on the line, she informed him that it was paste-up day and that the editor refused to be interrupted by anyone.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Next door was the art directors' paste-up room.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • But I was putting the poster together at work and doing paste-ups.

    Blog text (30)
  • Headlines and paste-up are finished at noon.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Faint memories of the paste-ups, even the whiff of the inks at the press, still come to mind.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • She went to her study and got the magnifying glass she sometimes used for checking ad paste-ups.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • I’m a layout paste-up artist.

  • The whole of it glared like a paste-up to him, like something artificial taught in kindergarten with a pointer stick: an illuminated cutout on a black.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • When he says Dena is "with Shelley," Dena knows it makes him feel like a hip, bohemian lover instead of a paste-up artist, card-carrying member of a union, which he is.

    Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

typesetting
vspaste-up
  • Specialized
2 4.6

Putting text and pictures on a page for print or screen

is a physical layout method using affixed elements rather than a general arranging process

How Finished

paste-up
  • Archaic
1 7.6
layout
128 3.5
mock-up
  • Specialized
10 4.8
sketch
150 2.5

Surface Forms

paste-up singular
paste-ups plural

Morphology

paste-up = paste + up (semi-transparent) = paste + up

The components 'paste' and 'up' are literal, but the specialized publishing sense (a prepared layout) is technical and not fully predictable for average learners.

Etymology

Paste-up comes from paste ('to stick with glue') and up ('on top'), because printers and designers used to cut out text and pictures and stick them up on a board to make a page. So a paste-up is the physical layout you can touch and check before it goes to print.