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  2. Prepress proofing - Wikipedia

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    Prepress proofing (also known as off-press proofing [4]) is a cost-effective way of providing a visual copy without the expense of creating a press proof. [5] If errors are found during the printing process on press, correcting them can prove very costly to one or both parties involved.

  3. Quoin (printing) - Wikipedia

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    A single-page "forme" for printing the front page of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The black frame surrounding it is the "chase", and the two objects each on the bottom and left side are the "quoins". A quoin is a device used to lock printing type in a chase in letterpress printing. [1] Quoins are pairs of wedges, facing opposite ...

  4. Caps Lock - Wikipedia

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    Caps Lock. Caps LockCaps Lock is a button on a computer keyboard that causes all letters of bicameral scripts to be generated in capital letters. It is a toggle key: each press reverses the previous action. Some keyboards also implement a light to give visual feedback about whether it is on or off.

  5. Esc key - Wikipedia

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    A computer keyboard with the Esc key in the top-left corner IBM 83-key keyboard (1981), with Esc in the top-left corner of the alphanumeric section. On computer keyboards, the Esc keyEsc (named Escape key in the international standard series ISO/IEC 9995) is a key used to generate the escape character (which can be represented as ASCII code 27 in decimal, Unicode U+001B, or Ctrl+[).

  6. Printer (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A video showing an inkjet printer while printing a page. In computing, a printer is a peripheral machine which makes a persistent representation of graphics or text, usually on paper. [1] While most output is human-readable, bar code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers. [2]

  7. Teleprinter - Wikipedia

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    Example of teleprinter art: a portrait of Dag Hammarskjöld, 1962. A teleprinter ( teletypewriter, teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical device that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations. Initially, from 1887 at the earliest ...

  8. 3D printing - Wikipedia

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    3D printing or additive manufacturing is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined or solidified under computer control, with the material being added together (such as plastics, liquids or powder grains being fused), typically layer by layer.

  9. QWERTY - Wikipedia

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    QWERTY ( / ˈkwɜːrti / KWUR-tee) is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top letter row of the keyboard: Q W E R T Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout included in the Sholes and Glidden typewriter sold via E. Remington and Sons from 1874.