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

The typesetting is all done by hand, and the type distributed immediately upon completion of presswork.

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

A copy of the play was sent on to Charles to enable him to prepare the presswork for it, and it was the first play manuscript he ever read.

From Charles Frohman: Manager and Man by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

The paper for quarter of a million copies will cost twelve hundred and fifty dollars, the presswork about five hundred dollars.

From The Bread Line A Story of a Paper by Paine, Albert Bigelow

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