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- Lineup Table
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A table with an illuminated top used for preparing and checking alignment of page layouts and paste-ups.
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- Lining
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The material which is pasted down on the backbone (spine) of a book to be casebound, after it has been sewn, glued off, and then rounded. It reinforces the glue and helps hold signatures together.
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- Lining Figures
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- Link
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1. A connection between two points. The connected points could be cells, documents, files, records or Web pages.
2. In desktop publishing, it is the joining of two or more text boxes so that the text will automatically flow from one box to the next.
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- Linked Ring
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The Linked Ring Brotherhood was an organization of photographers founded in London in 1892 by Henry Peach Robinson. Members, including Stieglitz, Coburn, Evans and Annan, held annual exhibitions called “salons,” a name they borrowed from the world of painting in an attempt to demonstrate their artistic purpose.
Although their aesthetics varied, the members of the Brotherhood were united by their desire to further “the development of the highest form of art of which photography is capable.”
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- Linoleum Cut
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- Linotype
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The machine patented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1882, which was the first fully functional line composing machine and revolutionized the entire printing industry, in particular newspaper production.
Used for the first time by the New York Tribune newspaper in 1886, the Linotype remained basically unchanged in its basic functions, despite numerous improvements, until it was replaced by electronic typesetting procedures.
Using a keyboard similar to a typewriter, it assembles the metal matrices of letters and other characters and the interlaying spaces to form lines of print which are automatically cast using a lead alloy.
Lines of print created in this way can then be compiled into text columns. One of the Linotype’s major innovations was the fact that the matrices could be reused, the machine automatically sorting and assigning these to their stock positions using a mechanical coding system.
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- Lint
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- Linux
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Refers to any Unix-like computer operating system which uses the Linux kernel.
It is one of the most prominent examples of open source development and free software as well as user generated software; its underlying source code is available for anyone to use, modify, and redistribute freely.
Initially developed and used primarily by individual enthusiasts on personal computers, Linux has since gained the support of corporations such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Novell, Inc., and has risen to prominence as an operating system for servers; eight of the ten most reliable internet hosting companies now run Linux on their web servers.
Linux has been more widely ported to different computing platforms than any other operating system.
It is used in devices ranging from supercomputers to mobile phones, and is gaining popularity in the personal computer market.
GNU/Linux
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- LiOn
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A lithium-ion non-rechargeable battery that is considerably more expensive than other batteries. They will provide about 2 hours or more of use and have a shelf life of up to 10 years
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- Lip
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The allowance for overlap of one-half of the open side edge of a folded section, needed for sewn and saddlestitch binding, for feeding the sections; also called lap.
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- Liquid Packaging Board,
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LPB
Plastic-coated board (FBB, SBS, SUS and CKB) used for the packaging of liquid foods, such as milk or juice, and often high-barrier-coated or foil-laminated for long-life beverages
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- List
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All of the titles a book publisher has in print and available for sale.
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- List Broker
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An individual or company that specializes in handling the selection of an appropriate mailing list for the mailer to buy or rent.
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- List Cleaning
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Updating the mailing lists by making address corrections and eliminates obsolete address.
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- List Compiler
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An individual or company specializing in compiling lists from records of information, such as product warranties or registrations, birth records, property transfers, surveys and membership registrations.
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- List Criteria
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The specifications of a list that differentiates one from the other. The specifications are what categorize the names for the list.
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- List Enhancement
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Adding information, about the customer, to the mailing list to make it more valuable. The additional information can come from other lists or databases.
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- List Price
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The suggested retail selling price of a book, as opposed to the net price or discount price, which is the price at which bookstores or distributors purchase the book from the publisher. Also called the cover price.
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- Listserv
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A program that sends messages automatically to a pre-assigned distribution list.
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- Literary Agent
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A person or company looking after the interests of author clients and managing the exploitation of rights in an author’s work.
This includes submission of a book to publishers, perhaps in the form of an auction, negotiating a contract, collecting money due, and dealing with other rights not held by the publisher, such as (in many cases) broadcasting and film rights.
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- Literary Market Place:
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Publication by Bowker listing US publishers and other book trade information. An international edition is also published.
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- Lithograph
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An illustration printed from stone, zinc, or other material.
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- Lithographic Image
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An ink-receptive image on the lithographic press plate; the design or drawing on stone or a metal plate.
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- Lithographic Papers
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- Lithographic Printing
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Refers to all printing processes in which the printing areas of the printing plate lie on the same or virtually the same plane as the non-printing parts.
This technology takes advantage of the fact that it is possible to create both oleophilic (oil-friendly) and hydrophilic (water-friendly) areas on the printing surface.
When the plate is inked, only the oleophilic areas retain the ink. The first lithographic process was stone printing, invented by Aloys Senefelder in 1796.
Offset printing is based on this technology.
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- Lithography
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1.Invented by Alois Senefelder in 1789, a method for producing printing forms for stone printing. Using special ink or chalk, the printing copy is transferred directly onto a smooth-ground block of carbonate of lime (calcium carbonate – CaCO3).
The stone block is moistened before being inked up with oil-based printing ink. The printing areas then take up the oil-based ink, while the unchanged limestone repels it. The word lithographs (lithos for short) is also used colloquially for copy for offset printing (screened images, line engravings).
2.Lithography refers to a method of printing whereby the image areas, which are neither raised nor depressed, attract ink and the non-image areas repel ink. Most lithography is offset lithography in which the image is transferred from the plate to a rubber blanket, and then printed (offset) from the blanket onto the paper.
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- Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession
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In 1905 Edward Steichen, dissatisfied with the exhibition opportunities in New York, proposed to Stieglitz that they open a gallery in the small apartment next to his residence at 291 Fifth Avenue. The purpose of this gallery would be not only to exhibit the work of the Photo-Secession, but also to show the work of the modern artists emerging from Europe.
From 1907 through 1917, the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession – better known as 291 (from its street address) – staged some of the most important early exhibitions of modern art held in America, featuring artists like Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, and other European modernists. In most cases, these were the first showings of their work in New York.
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- Live Label
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An EAS label that is in an activate state which would set off an alarm when detected by an EAS detection system.
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