pasteup

Pre-digital page layout

Pasteup is a layout assembled by pasting text and images onto a board, used as camera-ready copy for printing.

Before desktop publishing, graphic designers created pasteups by hand, positioning typeset galleys and artwork with wax or rubber cement: The art department spent hours on the pasteup for the magazine spread.

Also spelled paste-up.

publishing

layout

Spatial arrangement of elements

mechanicals · camera-ready · compositor · keyline · blueline · proof · imposition · broadsheet · column · headline

technique

waxer

One who buffs surfaces

ruler · rubber cement · burnisher · crop marks · registration · overlay · acetate · board · straightedge · triangle

digital

InDesign

Page layout application

software · template · WYSIWYG · drag-and-drop · layers · artboard · pixel · vector · export · PDF

collage

cutout

Shape removed from material

glue · paper · magazine · clipping · image · composition · juxtaposition · Dada · zine · scrapbook

Opposites
production method

pasteupdesktop publishing

Computer-based document creation

computer-aided design · DTP · electronic publishing · digital · web design

workflow stage

pasteuppress run

Quantity of copies produced

manuscript

Phrases
Family

paste, pasted, pastes, pastelike, paste-up

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G