tympan
A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
Industrial printing
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tympaning
The material used for tympans, or padding under the platen of a letterpress.
type
A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
type area
The useful area of a page of printed material without the margins.
type bar
A line of type cast in one piece, as in a linotype or typograph.
type-high
adjectiveIndustrial printing
Of the standard height of a line of type.
typecase
A case containing the printer's type characters.
typecutter
A person who cuts the die used in traditional printing.
typeface
The surface of type which inked, or the impression it makes.
typograph
A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.
typometry
Printing maps or drawings with moveable type.
underlay
A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
underprint
adjectiveIndustrial printing
The addition of colour under black areas to produce a deeper black and prevent oversaturation of the paper.
union bug
A maker’s mark imprinted on a work to show that it is sanctioned by members of a trade union. It is often a tiny elongated rhomboid containing and surrounded by, in minuscule typeface, identifying names and the union’s local chapter number.
unlead
To take out the leads from (printed matter that has been set up).
upmaker
A person employed to make up galley proofs in page mode.
upmaking
The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.
varitype
To prepare printed material using a machine of this kind.
verso
The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an even page number.
vicesimo-quarto
A book size, (2.5", 3.3" x 5", 6.25"), corresponding to the paper size.
vigesimo-quarto
adjectiveIndustrial printing
Formed of sheets folded so as to make twenty-four leaves.
vignette
A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position.
waver
In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
web
A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
webbing
Tapes conducting webs of paper in a printing machine.
whiskering
A defect of gravure printing characterized by printed areas possessing hairlike tendrils of ink sticking out into non-image areas.
with privilege
adverbIndustrial printing
used to indicate a book has been legally published or is entitled to special privileges, e.g., due to a royal monopoly
woodblock
A wooden block used as a printing form.