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144: 243:, which would require black paper or red film (which photo-imaged the same as black) to be trimmed and placed on the board in place of the image; in the process of creating the negative film for the printing plates, the solid black area would create a clear spot on the negative, called a window. The photographs would be converted to halftone film separately and then positioned in this window to complete the page (although this process was typically performed by a different worker, known as a negative "stripper"). 47: 206:, or compositor would cut the type into sections and arrange it carefully across multiple columns. For example, a 15 inch strip could be cut into three 5-inch sections. Headlines and other typographic elements were often created and supplied separately by the typesetter, leaving it to the paste up artist to determine their final position on the page. 220:. The adhesives were intentionally made semi-permanent, allowing the strips to be removed and moved around the layout if it needed to be changed. The strips would be adhered to a board, usually a stiff white paper on which the artist would draw the publication's margins and columns, either lightly in pencil or in non-photographic blue ink, a light 265:
technologies. Starting in the 1990s, many newspapers started doing away with paste up, switching to desktop publishing software that allows pages to be designed completely on a computer. Such software includes
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is a method of creating or laying out publication pages that predates the use of the now-standard computerized page design
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Once a page was complete, the board would be attached to an easel and photographed in order to create a
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would also be prepared with adhesive and attached to the boards. Continuous-tone photographs would need
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in a scroll of narrow (3-inch or 4-inch) paper that was as deep as the length of the story.
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color that would be ignored by the orthochromatic film used to make printing plates in
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Adhesive was then applied to the back side of these strips, either by applying
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Method of preparing copy for photographing to make a printing plate
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with a brush or passing them through a machine that would apply a
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process, the mechanicals would be photographed with a
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A professional known variously as a paste-up artist,
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Paste-up
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verification
improve this article
adding citations to reliable sources
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news
newspapers
books
scholar
JSTOR
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Alice in Wonderland
Oxford University Press
desktop publishing
camera-ready
offset lithography
stat camera
printing plate
phototypesetting
column
layout
production artist
rubber cement
wax
adhesive
cyan
offset lithography

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