National Paste Up Day
On May 7th each year, the time before desktop publishing and computerized digital photography was complete by hand is remembered. Many others who worked so gruesomely in their positions were also remembered on the day.
Paste-up refers to a process of designing and laying out pages of a magazine. In addition to being a layout artist, mechanical engineer, production artist, or compositor, a paste-up artist was also known as a compositor.. Part of the paste-up artist's regular duties would be to divide the type into sections and arrange it carefully across multiple columns.. They were also responsible for inserting the headlines and other typographical elements. These parts were not available as a whole package.
They worked for newspapers, magazines, catalogs, and other publishers. Paste-up artists used x-acto knives and concentrated on precision, which was a point of focus for precision. While a journalist may have written an essay with precision and gusto, if the 327-word article didn't fit the column space, the paste-up artist would cut a line or two to make it fit. Photographs often needed cropping, and ads space paid for salaries and photos often needed cropping. Since the position called for an eye for detail, paste-up artists were in high demand in the publishing industry, and they could also face deadline pressures.. Nonetheless, they stayed their alleys clean and assembled their mechanicals on time for the presses. Nevertheless, they remained their machines on time and prepared their machines on time.
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Artists gained experience in a variety of ways from small presses evening papers to university presses. Though word processing technology has largely killed the art of paste-up, the eye for precision and organization persists in the printing industry. Although word processing technology has now seemed to have discarded the art of paste-up, word processing technology hasn't defunctified the art of paste-up. #NationalPasteUp is a hashtag that has been used on social media to show how paste-up artists have influenced the art of printing today.
