press proof

English

Noun

press proof (plural press proofs)

  1. (printing, historical) The last proof for correction before sending to press.
    Synonym: reader's proof
    at press proof
    • 1930, Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins, Consider the Consequences!, H-12:
      . It was five o'clock, but the foreman of the printing-plant said that if Helen would stay to proofread the new matter to be substituted, make the readjustments in make-up and O.K. the press proof, he would keep part of the composing staff there until twelve o'clock and the magazine could come out on time.
  2. (printing, historical) A proof taken on a press, especially to show impression, margins, colour, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “press proof”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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