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

At my first admission into this printing-house I took to working at press, imagining I felt a want of the bodily exercise I had been used to in America, where presswork is mixed with composing.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

Yet newspapers have improved in presswork, and the typesetting machines have removed the evil of worn type.

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman

Bradford had been bred to it, and was very illiterate; and Keimer, though something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of presswork.

From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Franklin, Benjamin

Stansby's presswork was uniformly good, and in this respect alone he may be ranked among the best printers of his time.

From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)