| NOUN | communication | printing process, printing | reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication |
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| Meaning | reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication. | |
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| Synonym | printing | |
| Category of | adscript | Written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it |
| ascender | (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | |
| descender | (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | |
| hair space | (printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters | |
| impression, printing | All the copies of a work printed at one time | |
| justified | Having words / words so spaced that lines have straight even margins | |
| kern | Remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters) | |
| kern | Furnish with a kern | |
| leaded | Having thin strips of lead between the lines of type | |
| live | in current use or ready for use | |
| printing | The business of producing printed material for sale or distribution | |
| proof, test copy, trial impression | (printing) an impression made to check for errors | |
| quad, space | (printing) a block of type without a raised letter | |
| serif, seriph | A short line at the end of the main strokes of a character | |
| subscript, inferior | Written or printed below and to one side of another character | |
| superscript, superior | Written or printed above and to one side of another character | |
| underlay | Raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type | |
| unleaded | not having leads between the lines | |
| white out | widen the interlinear spacing by inserting leads | |
| word processing | rapid and efficient processing (storage and printing) of linguistic data for composition and editing | |
| Narrower | carbon process | A process of printing on paper coated with bichromated gelatin containing pigment |
| intaglio printing, intaglio, gravure | A printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate | |
| offset, offset printing | A plate makes an inked impression on a rubber / rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper | |
| planographic printing, planography | The process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent) | |
| process printing | A method of printing colored reproductions from halftone plates | |
| relief printing, letterpress | printing from a plate with raised characters | |
| typography, composition | art and technique of printing with movable type | |
| Broader | writing | letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language |
| Spanish | impresión | |
| Catalan | impressió | |
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