presswork
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There are, for example, chapters about paper, typography and layout, typesetting and presswork, bindings, endpapers and dust jackets.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2020
This innovation, designed to imitate the rubricated initials of the manuscripts, involved great technical difficulties in the presswork, and was not generally adopted.
From Printing and the Renaissance A paper read before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester, New York by Slater, John Rothwell
They needed good paper and careful presswork, and all over Europe paper and presswork were rapidly deteriorating.
From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)
In this way it would be possible to secure classes of from 60 to 100 boys each for such trades as composition and presswork.
From Wage Earning and Education by Lutz, Rufus Rolla
Some of the founts, especially the larger Roman, are very unevenly and badly cast, but on the whole the presswork was carefully done.
From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)
