Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| anastatic | pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates. |
| aquatone | a type of printing process. |
| autogravure | a process of photo-engraving similar to autotype. |
| autotypography | a process by which drawings made on gelatine are transferred to a plate from which impressions may be taken. |
| backlist | books previously published which a publisher keeps in print; (verb) to place on a backlist. |
| benday | a method of tint production in lithography; (verb) to reproduce by transferring lines or dots from gelatin sheets. |
| bibliopegic | relating to bibliopegy, the art of binding books. |
| bibliopegist | a bookbinder. |
| bibliopegy | the art of binding books. |
| boilerplate | syndicated material supplied esp to weekly newspapers in matrix or plate form; (verb) to print as a boilerplate. |
| boldface | boldfaced type; (verb) to make type bold. |
| booklet | a small book. |
| bookplate | a label usually pasted inside the cover of a book, bearing the owner's name or other distinguishing information. |
| bookwork | work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work. |
| brayer | an instrument for spreading ink in printing. |
| brochure | a pamphlet, information or publicity booklet. |
| bullet | a little ball; a projectile, now esp a round or conical one fired from any kind of small arm; (verb) to mark with a bullet-point. |
| cachet | (Fr.) a seal of approval; a mark of prestige; (verb) to print a design on an envelope. |
| callout | an inset in a printed article. |
| casebound | of a book, bound in stiff covers. |
| caseman | a compositor. |
| cerographic | relating to cerography, writing or printing on plates spread with wax. |
| cerographical | relating to cerography, writing or printing on plates spread with wax. |
| cerography | writing or printing on plates spread with wax. |
| chemitype | any chemical process for obtaining impressions from an engraving. |
| chemitypy | printing by chemitype, any chemical process for obtaining impressions from an engraving. |
| chromo | (Short for) a chromolithograph. |
| chromotype | a sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. |
| chromoxylograph | a picture printed in colours from wooden blocks. |
| clarendon | a form of condensed roman type having a heavy face. |
| clicker | the compositor who distributes the copy among a companionship of printers. |
| collotype | a method of printing illustrations from hardened gelatin film. |
| collotypic | relating to a collotype, a method of printing illustrations from hardened gelatin film. |
| collotypy | printing by collotype, a method of printing illustrations from hardened gelatin film. |
| comp | (Coll.) a compositor; (verb) to work as a compositor. |
| compositorial | relating to the composition of type. |
| comprint | to share in printing of the former privilege shared with the Stationers' Company and the King's Printer by Oxford and Cambridge Universities. |
| copperplate | an engraved or etched copper printing plate. |
| copyread | (US) to subedit. |
| corrigendum | an error in a printed work discovered after printing and shown with its correction on a separate sheet. |
| counterproof | an inverted impression obtained from a newly printed proof of an engraving, by laying it, while the ink is still wet, upon plain paper, and passing it through the press. |
| creamwove | of woven paper, cream or white in colour. |
| deckel | a frame used in making paper by hand. |
| deckle | a frame used in making paper by hand. |
| deckled | deckle-edged. |
| dele | in printing, to delete. |
| egyptian | a kind of typeface. |
| electro | (Short for) electrotype (verb) to make a metallic copy of a page of print by printing |
| electrotint | a printing block produced by drawing with varnish on a metal plate, and depositing metal electrically on the parts not covered. |
| electrotype | to make a copy of something by electrolytically coating a mould with copper. |
| electrotypy | printing by electrotype. |
| emdash | a typographical dash. |
| endash | a typographical dash. |
| endleaf | an endpaper. |
| enfacement | the act of enfacing, printing on the face of a bill etc. |
| epigraphy | the study of ancient inscriptions; inscriptions collectively. |
| erratum | (Lat.) an error in writing or printing. |
| excudit | (Lat.) he or she struck, hammered, forged or printed this. |
| extrabold | a very bold typeface. |
| feint | the faint ruled lines on some stationery; (adj.) ruled in feint (verb) to make a feint |
| filmset | to set by a process of typesetting. |
| filmsetting | setting by a process of typesetting. |
| flexo | (Shor for) flexography, a method of rotary letterpress printing. |
| flexographic | relating to flexography. |
| flexography | a method of rotary letterpress printing using a resilient printing plate and solvent-based ink, used characteristically for printing on metal foil or plastic. |
| flyhand | a device for transferring printed sheets from the presses to a flat pile. |
| flyleaf | a blank leaf at the beginning or end of a book. |
| foldout | a large page, eg a diagram, folded to fit into a book. |
| folio | a leaf (two back-to-back pages) of a book; (verb) to number the leaves or pages of. |
| fontlet | a little font. |
| forme | metal type and blocks from which an impression is to be made, assembled and secured in a chase or frame ready for printing. |
| fractur | (Ger.) a German style of black letter, the normal type used for printing German from the 16th to the mid 20th century. |
| fraktur | (Ger.) a German style of black letter, the normal type used for printing German from the 16th to the mid 20th cent. |
| frisket | the light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing. |
| frontispiece | an illustration at the front of a book facing the title-page; (verb) to provide with a frontispiece. |
| gatefold | an oversized page in a book. |
| gazette | an official newspaper containing lists of government appointments; (verb) to publish in a gazette. |
| gothic | lurid, macabre (noun) a style of printing |
| gothically | (Adv.) GOTHIC, lurid, macabre. |
| gravure | any process of making an intaglio printing plate. |
| grayscale | in shades of grey. |
| handpress | a press operated by hand. |
| hardback | a hardcover book. |
| hardbacked | of a book, having hard covers. |
| hardbound | bound in hard covers; (noun) a book bound in hard covers. |
| hardcover | a book in hard covers, as opposed to a paperback. |
| headstick | in printing, a straight piece of furniture placed at the head of a form. |
| illustrated | an illustrated magazine. |
| imprimatur | (Lat.) a license to print or publish, esp one issued by a censor of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| incunable | a book printed from movable type before 1501. |
| incunabulum | (Lat.) a book printed from movable type before 1501. |
| incut | set in as if by cutting; in printing, inserted in spaces in the text; (noun) in rock climbing, an indent cut into the face of the rock which can be used as a handhold or foothold. |
| indention | a blank space left at the beginning of a line. |
| insetter | a person who or thing which insets pages etc. |
| interleaf | a leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book. |
| interline | to write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for correction or addition. |
| interpage | to print or insert on intermediate pages. |
| ionic | a style of type. |
| kettlestitch | a stitch made at head and tail of section of book to connect sections. |
| keyline | an outline showing the shape and position of an illustration. |
| letterpress | the process of printing from an inked raised surface esp when the paper is impressed directly upon the surface. |
| letterset | a method of rotary printing. |
| lightface | a typeface having comparatively light thin lines. |
| lightfaced | in a typeface having comparatively light thin lines. |
| linecasting | the casting of metal type in lines. |
| linecut | a type of printing plate. |
| linocut | a design cut in relief on linoleum. |
| linotype | (Tradename) a brand of typesetting machine; (verb) to set a line of type using a linotype machine. |
| linotyper | one who sets type using linotype. |
| literal | to be taken as read (noun) a misprint, a typographical error |
| literally | (Adv.) LITERAL, to be taken as read. |
| litho | (Short for) lithograph (verb) to make a lithograph |
| lithograph | a print produced by lithography; (verb) to produce by lithography. |
| lithographer | one who produces lithographs. |
| lithographic | relating to lithography. |
| lithographical | relating to lithography. |
| lithography | the process of printing from a plane surface, as a smooth stone or metal plate, on which the image to be printed is ink-receptive and the blank area ink-repellent. |
| lithoprint | a print made by lithography. |
| lithotype | an etched stone surface for printing a design in relief; an imprint made from it. |
| logographic | relating to logography, a method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used. |
| logographical | relating to logography, a method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used. |
| logographically | (Adv.) LOGOGRAPHICAL, relating to logography, a method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used. |
| logography | a method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used. |
| mackle | a blurred or double impression in printing; (verb) to print imperfectly, blur. |
| makeready | the preparation of a letterpress sheet for printing, so as to obtain evenness of impression. |
| microcard | a card representing some 200 or more pages of a book in microscopic print. |
| microform | a process for reproducing printed matter in much reduced size. |
| micropublisher | one who publishes in microform, a process for reproducing printed matter in much reduced size. |
| mispage | to page incorrectly. |
| monoprint | a single print taken from a design created in oil paint or printing ink on glass. |
| monospaced | single-spaced. |
| newsletter | a small publication (as a leaflet or newspaper) containing news of interest chiefly to a special group. |
| newsprint | inexpensive paper for printing newspapers on. |
| nonbook | not in book form; (noun) a work not in book form. |
| nonprint | not print. |
| nonprinting | not printing. |
| outsert | a folded sheet placed round a folded section of printed matter. |
| overmatter | overset type matter, i.e. text that has been set but cannot be printed due to lack of space. |
| overprint | to print over something already printed. |
| paginal | of or relating to pages or pagination. |
| paginate | to number the pages of. |
| palaeotype | a 19C phonetic adaptation of ordinary alphabetical type. |
| palaeotypic | of or like a palaeotype, a 19c phonetic adaptation of ordinary alphabetical type. |
| pamphlet | a small unbound printed work; (verb) to circulate pamphlets to. |
| paperback | a book with a flexible paper cover; (verb) to bring out in paperback. |
| pastedown | the outer leaf of an endcover that is pasted down over a book. |
| pasteup | a draft of a printed page including text, graphics etc. |
| perfector | a machine for perfecting, printing both sides at once. |
| phat | susceptible of easy and rapid typesetting. |
| phonotype | printing type for a phonetic alphabet; (verb) to print in phonotype. |
| phonotyper | one who phonotypes, prints in phonotype. |
| phonotypic | of or like a phonotype, a printing type of phonetic alphabet. |
| phonotypical | of or like a phonotype, a printing type of phonetic alphabet. |
| photocompose | to set (as reading matter) by photocomposition. |
| photocomposer | one who photocomposes. |
| photogelatine | another name for collotype, a method of printing illustrations from hardened gelatin film. |
| photogravure | printing from engraved plates photographically prepared. |
| photolitho | (Short for) a photolithograph. |
| photoset | to compose (matter) by projecting film from which a printing plate is made. |
| photosetter | an apparatus for photosetting. |
| photosetting | composing (matter) by projecting film from which a printing plate is made. |
| phototype | a plate or block with a printing surface (usually in relief) obtained from a photograph; (verb) to print by this means. |
| phototypeset | to set (type matter) by phototypesetting. |
| phototypic | of or pertaining to a phototype or phototypy. |
| phototypically | (Adv.) PHOTOTYPIC, of or pertaining to a phototype or PHOTOTYPY. |
| phototypography | any printing process involving the use of photography. |
| pical | resembling a pica, a size of type. |
| platen | the part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. |
| polytype | a cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc; (noun) to produce by use of a polytype. |
| postal | relating to post (noun) a postcard issued by the Post Office with a printed stamp |
| postally | (Adv.) POSTAL, relating to post. |
| prent | (Scots) to print. |
| preprint | to print beforehand. |
| pressmark | a mark on a book to show its location in a library. |
| pressrun | a continuous operation of a printing press. |
| presswork | the operation of a printing press; printed matter. |
| to produce by pressed type on a surface. | |
| printable | that can be printed. |
| printer | one that prints. |
| printery | a printing house. |
| printhead | the part of a printer that does the work of printing. |
| printmaker | an artist who makes prints. |
| printworks | a place where printing is carried out. |
| proofer | one who proofs. |
| pullout | a section of a magazine, etc that can be removed and kept separately. |
| quadrat | a small square area or block, esp used as space in printing. |
| remarque | (Fr.) a mark made in the margin of an engraving indicating a stage of development prior to completion. |
| remarqued | bearing a remarque, a mark made in the margin of an engraving indicating a stage of development prior to completion. |
| reprint | something printed again; (verb) to print again. |
| reprographic | relating to reprography, the reproduction of graphic or typeset material. |
| reprography | the reproduction of graphic or typeset material. |
| roto | (Short for) rotogravure, a type of printing process. |
| rotogravure | an intaglio printing process by which imagery is transferred from a copper cylinder to a web of paper, plastic or similar material in a rotary press. |
| rounce | part of a hand-printing press. |
| semibold | a typeface between medium and bold. |
| semisolus | an advertisement on the same page as another advertisement but not adjacent to it. |
| separatum | (Lat.) a separate offprint. |
| serigraph | a silkscreen print. |
| serigrapher | one who makes serigraphs, silkscreen prints. |
| serigraphic | relating to serigraphy. |
| serigraphy | the making of silkscreen prints. |
| sheetfed | fed with sheets, eg a printer. |
| silkscreen | a print produced by the silkscreen process; (verb) to print via the screen process. |
| slipcased | contained in a slipcase. |
| slipout | an insert in a newspaper. |
| smoot | (Sl.) a compositor who does odd jobs in various printing houses; (verb) to work in this way. |
| softback | a paperback book. |
| softbound | bound in soft covers; (noun) a book bound in soft covers. |
| softcover | a paperback book. |
| spaceband | a wedge for justifying the line in mediaeval typesetting. |
| stenochrome | a print by stenochromy, printing in several colours at one printing. |
| stenochromy | printing in several colours at one printing. |
| stereo | stereophonic reproduction of sound; (verb) to make a type of printing plate. |
| stereotype | a fixed conventionalized or stock image; (verb) to make a stereotype of. |
| stonecut | a print made from an image engraved on a stone. |
| stonehand | in printing, an imposer, a person whose sets the type in a chase. |
| stylebook | a book of rules for printers and editors. |
| supertitle | a surtitle, a printed translation of the libretto of an opera in a language foreign to the audience. |
| surprint | to print over something already printed. |
| tearsheet | a page in a magazine perforated to facilitate its removal. |
| teletypesetting | typesetting by use of a Teletypesetter. |
| ternion | a triad; a section of a book with three double leaves. |
| thermography | a process of writing or printing involving the use of heat. |
| typecase | a tray with compartments for storing printing type. |
| typeface | the face of printing type. |
| typefounding | the casting of printers' type. |
| typeset | to set in type. |
| typesetter | one whose job is to set type. |
| typestyle | a style of type. |
| typograph | to produce stamps by letterpress. |
| typographer | one who designs type. |
| typographia | matter relating to printing or printers. |
| typographic | relating to typography, the art of printing or using type. |
| typographical | relating to typography, the art of printing or using type. |
| typographically | (Adv.) TYPOGRAPHIC, relating to typography, the art of printing or using type. |
| typography | the art of printing or using type. |
| upmake | the action of making up; galley proofs arranged in page mode. |
| upmaker | one who makes up galley proofs arranged in page mode. |
| upmaking | the process of making up galley proofs arranged in page mode. |
| verso | (Lat.) the reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper. |
| watermark | a distinguishing mark in paper; (verb) to mark with a watermark. |
| webfed | designed to print a continuous roll of paper. |
| wirewove | designating a very fine quality of writing paper. |
| woodburytype | a photomechanical process in which an exposed and developed bichromated film is forced into a metal plate by great pressure, and so forms a matrix for subsequent printing. |
| woodcut | a design cut in relief on a block of wood. |
| woodprint | a design cut in relief on a block of wood. |
| wordage | words generally, text as opposed to pictures. |
| wordbreak | point of division in a word that runs onto the next line. |
| xylograph | an engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving; a print by xylography; (verb) to copy by xylograph. |
| xylotypographic | relating to, or printed from, wooden type. |
| xylotypography | printing from wooden type. |
| zincograph | a plate or picture produced by zincography. |
| zincographic | relating to zincography, an engraving process in which zinc is covered with wax and etched. |
| zincographical | relating to zincography, an engraving process in which zinc is covered with wax and etched. |
| zincography | an engraving process in which zinc is covered with wax and etched. |