Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A method of offset printing using photomechanical plates.
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- noun A method of
offset printing that usesphotomechanical plates
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a method of offset printing using photomechanical plates
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Examples
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We were able to put real-looking type into nice pictures and started doing books – photo-offset illustrations and letterpress type.
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We had a linotype machine and a hand letterpress, then we bought a small photo-offset press.
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We were able to put real-looking type into nice pictures and started doing books – photo-offset illustrations and letterpress type.
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We had a linotype machine and a hand letterpress, then we bought a small photo-offset press.
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We had a linotype machine and a hand letterpress, then we bought a small photo-offset press.
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We were able to put real-looking type into nice pictures and started doing books – photo-offset illustrations and letterpress type.
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_Index to New Zealand Periodicals_ -- The 1956 issue of the index, the first for which the National Library Service has accepted the responsibility of publication, was printed by photo-offset and distributed.
Report of the National Library Service for the Year Ended 31 March 1958 New Zealand. National Library Service
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In appearance they most resemble a collage poster - a billboard on end - that may have been created out of Ballard's original idea to have The Atrocity Exhibition done as a book of montage illustrations: 'I originally wanted a large-format book, printed by photo-offset, in which I would produce the artwork - a lot of collages, material taken from medical documents and medical photographs, crashing cars and all that sort of iconography.'
Ballardian 2009
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There are older and possibly better ways of conveying supplications to God, and in these modern times a silent prayer by way of wireless telegraphy might have been more appropriate and up-to-date than a form-letter printed by photo-offset.
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Coach House Press/Books founder Stan Bevington reiterates this truth in these excerpts from Roy MacSkimming’s ‘Perilous Trade Conversations’ conducted back in 1998, now found in the latest edition of CNQ magazine: Bevington: …I was fascinated by the photo-offset available at the time.
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