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PRE-IMPRESSION [4 records]

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Record 1 2011-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flexography (Printing)
DEF

The process of printing on the external board prior to its manufacture into corrugated board.

OBS

preprint: term extracted from the Vocabulaire de la flexographie of France Brodeur and reproduced with the authorization of the Institut des communications graphiques du Québec.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Flexographie (Imprimerie)
DEF

Impression préalable d'un support qui sera ensuite contrecollé sur le produit à façonner.

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec le terme masculin prépresse qui groupe les activités avant l'impression.

OBS

préimpression; pré-impression : Termes, définition et observation tirés du Vocabulaire de la flexographie de France Brodeur. Reproduction autorisée par l'Institut des communications graphiques du Québec.

Spanish

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Record 2 1998-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
Key term(s)
  • pre-treating roll

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie
Key term(s)
  • rouleau de pré-imprégnation
  • rouleau de pré-impression

Spanish

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Record 3 1991-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Packaging
  • Printing Processes - Various
DEF

Printing a package (as a bag or carton) before it is formed on a machine.

OBS

See "pre-printed bag" in The Glossary of Packaging Terms (source code: GREPA), 1988, p. 181.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Emballages
  • Procédés d'impression divers
DEF

Impression d'un conditionnement, par exemple un sac ou un étui carton, avant sa formation sur machine.

Spanish

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Record 4 1987-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Documentation (Library Science)
  • Plans and Specifications (Construction)
  • Publication and Bookselling
DEF

Printed text of a report (or paper) distributed in advance of its official publication.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Documentation (Bibliothéconomie)
  • Devis, cahiers des charges et plans (Construction)
  • Édition et librairie
DEF

Le texte imprimé d'un rapport, distribué avant que ce rapport soit officiellement présenté. (Des expressions telles que «bonnes feuilles» ou «tirés à part» sont déjà utilisées en matière d'édition avec un sens différent de «preprint».)

Key term(s)
  • pré-impression
  • document provisoire
  • fascicule d’avant-tirage

Spanish

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