Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
camera-ready mechanicals
English answer:
completed pages ready to be printed
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Charles Davis
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camera-ready mechanicals
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In addition, we offer full production and typesetting capabilities. Typically, a job will be translated, proofread, edited, typeset, and delivered as if needed.
Can anyone explain this to me?
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Can anyone explain this to me?
TIA!
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completed pages ready to be printed
In principle this refers to the days before computer typesetting, when pages of a publication were prepared by hand on paper, the result being called a paste-up. "Camera-ready" meant ready to be photographed for offset printing: in other words, completed, corrected and ready to be printed. The term "camera-ready copy" is still common, even though no camera is involved these days.
"Mechanical" is just another term for a "paste-up", a completed page.
"Completed, or camera-ready, pages are known as mechanicals or mechanical art. In the offset lithography process, the mechanicals would be photographed with a stat camera to create a same-size film negative for each printing plate required."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paste_up
"Mechanical" is just another term for a "paste-up", a completed page.
"Completed, or camera-ready, pages are known as mechanicals or mechanical art. In the offset lithography process, the mechanicals would be photographed with a stat camera to create a same-size film negative for each printing plate required."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paste_up
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This is the full sentence. Sorry about that!
It rather looks as if this was written by a non-native speaker of EN — leading to the rather laughable closing remark "...and delivered as if needed"!!! Anybody's guess what that was meant to mean...