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Little treasury of book printing vocab
Thread poster: Phil Hand
Phil Hand
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China
Local time: 06:06
Chinese to English
Jan 9, 2013

I've never done a translation on printing, but it's good to lay in the knowledge for when one comes up:

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/12/a-memory-of-light-being-printed-step-by-step


I learned:
bindery
offset printer
signature
skid (apparently "skid" is American for what I would call a pallet)
endpapers
case

Very interesting for a linguist and a book lover!
 


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