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

For merits it can usually offer clear type, black ink, and good presswork.

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman

It is fitting, then, that the same publishers should issue the book now under our hand, a fine specimen of the printer's art in paper, presswork, binding, and illustrations.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

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

The types used in each case were those of Anton Koberger, D�rer’s godfather, and the effect of the artist’s personal superintendence, which the colophons attest, is seen in the excellence of the presswork.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)