pre-pressadj.n.
/ˈpriːprɛs/, U.S. /ˈpriˌprɛs/ Printing and Publishing.
A. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating procedures carried out on a publication prior to printing, such as typesetting, composition, and colour separation.
ΚΠ
1952 N.Y. Times 8 Nov. 20/5 Pre-press costs of catalogues containing listings of a company's products can be kept to a minimum.
1971 R. Brewer Approach to Print ii. 28 The disadvantages of conventional letterpress..reside in its dependence, as a process, on more or less elaborate and time-consuming pre-press sequences, and the relative slowness of sheet-fed presses.
2002 P. Baines & A. Haslam Type & Typogr. iv. 94/2 Typesetting houses had to adapt by becoming service bureaux,..and by diversifying into colour reproduction and other aspects of pre-press work.
B. n.
Such procedures considered collectively as a phase in the production of printed media.
ΚΠ
1987 Guardian 26 Jan. 9/5 Perhaps the most ambitious proposal is to cut the number of bargaining units from 25 to three—pre-press, press and publishing, and maintenance and services.
1994 CompuServe Mag. Mar. 28/2 A 17-inch monitor may be fine for general use, but if you are doing a lot of finely detailed work such as high-end DTP or pre-press, you should consider a larger monitor.
2002 S. D. Heller Becoming Graphic Designer i. 43 Often the art direction and design..takes only 40 percent of the time and the overseeing of staff projects, illustrators, budget, and prepress takes the other 60 percent.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1952