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

It was a magnificently printed volume, exhibiting at the very foundation of the art a skill in presswork scarcely surpassed by any of Gutenberg's immediate successors.

From Printing and the Renaissance A paper read before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester, New York by Slater, John Rothwell

Good or bad presswork is a good or bad result of work done on a press.

From Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick 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

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

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore