sidestick
A sloped or beveled piece of wood or metal placed against the side of a page that is being typeset, and locked in place by quoins.
Industrial printing
388 entries in this trade.
signature
A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
skeleton
A very thin form of light-faced type.
slice
A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
slip sheet
A sheet inserted between freshly printed pages to prevent them from sticking together.
slug out
To print (something) using slugs (A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine).
slur
To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
small letter
A character that was once stored in the bottom half of a compositor's typecase.
small pica
The size of type between long primer and pica, standardized as 11 point.
small text
A small size of type, in French and Italian printing, usually conflated with brevier but technically treated as 7½ Didot points.
solid
Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
space line
A thin piece of metal used to open the lines of type to a regular distance from each other, and for other purposes; a lead.
space out
To increase the white space between letters, words or lines.
space rule
A fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter.
space suppression
The suppression of the normal advancement of paper in a printer after printing a line of text.
spanish
To subject to spanishing, a printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a plastic material
spanishing
A printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a material, usually plastic
spirit duplicator
An early document copier using alcohol-based solvents.
spirit master
A two-ply sheet used in a spirit duplicator, in which the top sheet could be typed, drawn, or written upon, and the second sheet was coated with a layer of colored wax.
spot color
In offset printing, any color generated by an ink, pure or mixed, that is printed using a single run.
squabble
To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.
stack
To have excessive ink transfer.
star
An asterisk (*) or comparable symbol (e.g., ★, ☆, ✶, ✦, ✧, ✷, ✪, ⭐) inspired by a celestial star.
steel
Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
stereotype
A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
stereotypography
The act or technique of printing from stereotype plates.
stereotypy
The process of making stereotype plates and printing from them.
stickful
As much type as fills a composing stick.
stigmatypy
A technique of printing with points, consisting of their arrangement in pictures.
stone
A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
stone editor
An editor who works with the compositor at the imposing stone to determine how material will be laid out on the page.
stone subeditor
A subeditor having a similar role to that of the stone editor.
strikeover
Strikeover or strikeout text, i.e., fonts where each letter appears to be "crossed out".
style
A set of rules regarding the presentation of text (spelling, typography, the citation of references, etc.) and illustrations that is applied by a publisher to the works it produces.
superior
A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
tablework
Typesetting of tabular matter.
tabloid
A paper size 11 × 17 inches (279 × 432 millimetres) in dimensions.
tailpiece
An ornamental design at the end of a chapter or page.
take
The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
takeoff
The removal of sheets from the press.
tape
A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
text
A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
thirty-twomo
A book size, corresponding to the paper size.
throwout
A folded sheet that opens out to one side; half a gatefold.
TIJ
Initialism of thermal inkjet.
tint block
A surface prepared for printing a background.
token
Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
trigesimo-secundo
A book size, (3.75", 5" × 2.5", 3.125"), corresponding to the paper size.
trypograph
An early machine for printing by the use of paper stencils.
turn
To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
turtle
The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
turtle-press
A type of printing press in which a turtle (a curved plate) was used.
twelvemo
a page, book etc. of that size
twenty-fours
A form of composed type or plates containing 24 leaves or 48 pages, properly arranged for printing and folding.
two-line
adjectiveIndustrial printing
Having a depth of body equal to double that of the size specified.
two-line brevier
A size of type between English and great primer, standardized as 16-point.
two-line double pica
The size of type between two-line great primer and canon, standardized as 44-point.
two-line English
The size of type between two-line pica and two-line great primer, standardized as 28-point.
two-line great primer
The size of type between two-line English and two-line double pica, standardized as 36-point.
two-line pica
A large size of type, standardized as 24-point.