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

Typography and presswork are of the highest order.

From Wholesale Price List of Newspapers and Periodicals by Agency, D. D. Cottrell's Subscription

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)

He's going to try to help pay for all this wasteful presswork you're doing.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore

In closing this Foreword, the printer desires to emphasize the fact that the typesetting and presswork of this book are entirely his own work.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith