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make-ready
[f. phr. to make ready (see ready a. III).]
1. = ready C. 2.
1830Marryat King's Own ii, The captain..brought his men to the ‘make ready’, and they were about to present.
2. Printing. The operation of ‘making ready’ (see ready a. 15 b); the result thereby obtained; the sheet on which the overlays are pasted for printing a particular form of type. Also attrib.
1887Sci. Amer. 25 June 405/1 It is a safe rule to keep the make-ready of every type job until the job has been distributed. 1915Southward's Mod. Printing (ed. 3) II. iii. 39 As a preventive against slurring through baggy tympans as much of the make-ready as is practicable should be done at the back of the forme. 1946N. & Q. 9 Mar. 93/1 Most early books are marked by bad paper, brownish ink, poor typography, lack of care in ‘make-ready’, and crude illustrations. 1959Times 14 Jan. 12/4 A saving of 50 hours' make-ready time. 1967Karch & Buber Offset Processes ii. 24 Makeready can be mechanical..with the 3 M makeready machine. 1970E. A. D. Hutchings Survey of Printing Processes 200 Make-ready, specifically, all operations carried out on the production machine from receipt of the job to the start of the production run. |