paste-up
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7.6
- noun
- /ˈpeɪstˌʌp/
- Archaic
:
maquetación
- Before the deadline, the team had to finalize the paste-up layout to ensure everything was ready for printing.
Examples
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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.
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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
2
4.6
Putting text and pictures on a page for print or screen
How Finished
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.