printing - the business of printing

hair space - (printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters

quad, space - (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words

writing - letters or symbols written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language; "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible"

printing, impression - all the copies of a work printed at one time; "they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies"

test copy, trial impression, proof - (printing) an impression made to check for errors

typography, composition - art and technique of printing with movable type

letterpress, relief printing - printing from a plate with raised characters

gravure, intaglio, intaglio printing - a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print

process printing - a method of printing colored reproductions from halftone plates

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)

offset printing, offset - a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper

carbon process - a process of printing on paper coated with bichromated gelatin containing pigment

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

serif, seriph - a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character

word processing - rapid and efficient processing (storage and printing) of linguistic data for composition and editing

white-out - widen the interlinear spacing by inserting leads

underlay - raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type; "underlay the plate"

superscript, superior - written or printed above and to one side of another character

subscript, inferior - written or printed below and to one side of another character

adscript - written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it